Secured Authentication for Banking Services using Visual Cryptography

Abstract

In this paper, at the time of new registration, user provides email id and then image of the applicant's choice. Image given as input is processed in such a way that, particular selected image by applicant is taken as input and is divided into two shares and then encrypted. One share is preserved in the service provider’s database and other share is sent to the applicant's email id. The applicant need to provide share during every transaction and that share is over lapped with the already existing share in service provider’s database and verification of data for authentication will be done. If username, password and uploaded encrypted image share got matched with existing database details, then the authentication is said to be succeeded.
Keywords: Authentication; Hacking; Visual Cryptography; Image Based Authentication