Provenance centered Communication us-ing Visual Cryptography: Design Perspective

Software design is an essential activity, which deals with producing models of both preliminary and high level design. This aspect acts an effective input for next phase of the software development which is actual construction of the software where coding is an important activity under the same. After the problem is well understood as a part of analysis activity, software design comes into scenario of software development life cycle. Associated with the aspects of effective communications in the untrusted network the internet, a model is proposed to mitigate issues in high risky channels. In this information security domain, two aspects are chosen. One being visual cryptography for securing the channel, and data provenance for understanding the lineage of operations. These traits aids in providing an indigenous solution for securing the communication channels. Data Provenance is the concept of capturing historical data for a given entity. The proposed model specifies securing untrusted communication channels with a peculiar encryption mechanism called as visual encryption. In this paper, design concepts for the mentioned approach are incorporated. It also contains the technical literature aspects of both data provenance and visual encryption with appropriate illustrations.