VISUAL SECRET SHARING: A REVIEW

Secured transmission is an important concern in today's Internet world in the field of
information technology. Recent technological developments in the computer networks have
made digital data transmission a popular task and digital images are no exception. Visual
Secret Sharing is a process of encrypting an image secret in "n" cipher images termed asshares, that can be transmitted or distributed over an unreliable channel of communication.
Secret sharing has been used in various applications to perform a secure communication.This paper details a review of the secret sharing schemes presented by different
researchers, its applications and the performance evaluation metrics.