Secured authentication of online documents using visual secret sharing on QR code

Abstract

Privacy of the confidential online documents is one of the major concerns in sharing the information at different platforms. Any methodology of security that has human interference is fully secured as long as the entities involved are ethical, otherwise, it cannot be considered as completely secure. This study is meant to use Visual Secret Sharing (VSS) on QR code. Due to the flexibility of storing complex data in QR code and the ability to split an image into non-readable shares enhance the efficiency of this methodology. The basic notion behind this concept is that the admin will create a QR code of the user and generates a unique id. The QR Code provide the link of the document that has to be secured along with some basic information. Finally, QR code is subjected to VSS where it splits the QR code into equal shares which are distributed among the user and admin. Due to this, admin can’t retrieve the document completely until and unless the other shares of the client are merged.

URN:NBN:sciencein.jist.2023.v11.568