Image Based Authentication for Phishing using Visual Cryptography

Abstract- With the advent of internet, various online attacks have been increased and among them the most popular attack is phishing. Phishing is an attempt by an individual or a group to get personal confidential information such as passwords, credit card information from unsuspecting victims for identity theft, financial gain and other fraudulent activities. Fake websites which appear very similar to the original ones are being hosted to achieve this. In this paper we have proposed a new approach named as an “Image based authentication using Visual Cryptography ” to solve the problem of phishing. The use of visual cryptography is explored to preserve the privacy of an image by decomposing the original image into two shares (one with user and one with server) such that the original image can be revealed only when both are simultaneously available; the individual sheet images do not reveal the identity of the original image. Using this website cross verifies its identity and proves that it is a genuine website before the end users. The emphasis of the project is to prevent the user from visiting a phishing website. The project aims at achievement of security of user and saving its confidential information from theft