Security is the main aspect of any communications among untrusted networks in the current world. Thanks to many researchers for their enormous contributions on effective security algorithms despite different attacks breaching the weakness on the computer systems. As always, execution of these algorithms used to take time because of their dependency on mathematical analysis. The more the complexity of mathematical model, the more is the robustness of the algorithm though. Good number of them proved to be strong and are used in many popular applications over internet systems for providing security. There were a few of some methods which used very less of the mathematical concepts. One of them and the most widespread schemes is Visual Cryptography. This considers images as one of the important element in its methodology. However, this notion is different from other imagery concepts used in security. The below information gives reader a clear view on visual cryptographic schemes available, and also it provides an understanding on different heterogeneous applications oriented to the same. This paper also focuses on an application oriented aspect of Data Provenance with respect to secure communication.

Visual Encryption, Data Provenance, Cyber Security, Attack Investigations

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