Secure data transmission in cloud environment using visual cryptography and genetic algorithm: A review

Now a day’s Cloud Computing is the great concept in the development of an on-demand network which provides access to a common pool of configurable resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction where Infrastructure, Platform, and Software can be accessed as a service.Cloud Computing provides reimbursement in terms of low cost and convenience of data, but its unique feature is its security. Sharing of data is an imperative functionality in cloud storage.In Cloud computing environment the sharing of data and transfer has increased exponentially. There are the various factors in data security like integrity, confidentiality, and authentication services. Maintaining secrecy and protection for critical data are highly challenging, particularly when data are stored in memory or send via any communication networks. I have reviewed several papers regarding our concept and what I found is that in some papers, GA has been used for security, In other papers used GA, VC, and Steganography together for enhancing security. But some are providing security quite well, having high overhead. And those which have low overhead, have poor security. In this paper we have described the genetic algorithm and visual cryptography related papers which helps to know the all areas where these techniques will be used. Genetic algorithm is used for providing encryption and decryption, for hiding critical data we are using visual cryptography