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Visual cryptography

An example:

The original image scaled down to 240x320 pixel is first transformed into a black/white picture:

Original

Then two random, but interconnected pictures are produced (one is the key, the other derived from it and the black/white picture, produced with no chosen pixel and pseudorandom seed #0 here):

When overlayed they show this:

Finally, key and cryptogram are embeddid in a PDF that can be easily printed on slides. Then see it work.

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