THE SECURED ANTI PHISHING APPROACH USING IMAGE BASED VALIDATION

Anti-phishing schemes in the websites presently work on helping users to confirm whether a web site is honest or not. Phishing on the web pages is an attempt by an individual or a group to threats/hackers seeking to retrieve an individual’s personal private information such as passwords, usernames/confidential information, credit card information etc. In this paper, I am proposing a new approach named as “The secured anti phishing approach using image based validation" to solve the problem of phishing. Textual keyword validation along with visual cryptography is a key advantage of this paper. The original image is divided into many blocks and rearrangement can be done. The use of visual cryptography technique((2,2) VCS scheme) is explored to reserve the privacy of image  by degenerating the original image  into two dissimilar image shares by manipulating the black and white pixel value of the image . Part of the image share will be stored in the servers such that the original image can be revealed only when both (client, server) of the shares are concurrently available. The individual share images do not reveal the identity of the original image . After the original image  is revealed later merging different shares, which can be used as the password. Dynamically generating the  image by the system is one of the major advantages of the system.