International Journal of Innovative Research in Computer and Communication Engineering
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| TITLE | A Comparative Study of Bit-Plane Based Visual Cryptography and Blowfish Encryption for Secure Image Protection |
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| ABSTRACT | With the rapid expansion of digital communication, protecting sensitive multimedia data has become increasingly important. As images are frequently transmitted over untrusted channels, they face risks of unauthorized access, modification, and manipulation. Among the various image security techniques, Visual Cryptography (VC) and cryptographic algorithms like Blowfish are widely used. VC combined with Bit-Plane Decomposition (BPD) divides a secret image into multiple meaningless shares that individually disclose no information, and reconstruction is achieved through simple stacking or XOR operations. In contrast, Blowfish is a fast and robust symmetric encryption algorithm that secures data using multiple Feistel rounds and complex key-dependent S-boxes. This study provides an in-depth comparative evaluation of these two approaches based on security strength, processing complexity, quality of reconstructed images, pixel expansion, storage overhead, attack resilience, and applicability to real-time systems. |
| AUTHOR | ANIL B. ALDE, VIKAS T. HUMBE School of Technology, S.R.T.M.U.N, Sub-Campus, Peth, Latur, Maharashtra, India |
| VOLUME | 177 |
| DOI | DOI: 10.15680/IJIRCCE.2025.1312113 |
| pdf/113_A Comparative Study of Bit-Plane Based Visual Cryptography and Blowfish Encryption for Secure Image Protection.pdf | |
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