Advanced Visual Cryptography Framework to Combat Phishing 🎯

Phishing is an attempt by an individual or a group to thieve personal confidential information such as
passwords, credit card information etc from unsuspecting victims for identity theft, financial gain and
other fraudulent activities. In this paper we have proposed a new approach named as "A Novel Antiphishing
framework based on visual cryptography" to solve the problem of phishing. Here an image
based authentication using Visual Cryptography (vc) is used. The use of visual cryptography is explored
to preserve the privacy of image captcha by decomposing the original image captcha into two shares that
are stored in separate database servers such that the original image captcha can be revealed only when
both are simultaneously available; the individual sheet images do not reveal the identity of the original
image captcha. Once the original image captcha is revealed to the user it can be used as the password.