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		numtel on Feb 27, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Encrypt Images Without a Key Using Visual Cryptogr... If there's no key, isn't it just encoding? Seems more like steganography

italianguy on March 1, 2025 [–]

No, it is not encoding. It is a secret-sharing scheme, where the idea is to divide the secret into multiple parts, with each part revealing nothing about the secret on its own.

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