<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <article key="pdf/10007822" mdate="2017-07-01 00:00:00"> <author>K. Suganya Devi and P. Srinivasan and M. P. Vaishnave and G. Arutperumjothi</author> <title>Secure EPay System Using Steganography and Visual Cryptography</title> <pages>296 - 299</pages> <year>2017</year> <volume>11</volume> <number>7</number> <journal>International Journal of Mathematical and Computational Sciences</journal> <ee>https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10007822</ee> <url>https://publications.waset.org/vol/127</url> <publisher>World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology</publisher> <abstract>Today&amp;amp;rsquo;s internet world is highly prone to various online attacks, of which the most harmful attack is phishing. The attackers host the fake websites which are very similar and look alike. We propose an image based authentication using steganography and visual cryptography to prevent phishing. This paper presents a secure steganographic technique for true color (RGB) images and uses Discrete Cosine Transform to compress the images. The proposed method hides the secret data inside the cover image. The use of visual cryptography is to preserve the privacy of an image by decomposing the original image into two shares. Original image can be identified only when both qualified shares are simultaneously available. Individual share does not reveal the identity of the original image. Thus, the existence of the secret message is hard to be detected by the RS steganalysis. </abstract> <index>Open Science Index 127, 2017</index> </article>