A visual cryptography scheme for a
set \cal P of n participants is a method to encode a secret
image SI into n shadow images called shares, where each participant in
\cal P receives one share. Certain qualified subsets of participants
can ``visually'' recover the secret image, but
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In this primarily expository
paper, we discuss the connections between two popular and useful
tools in theoretical computer science, namely,
universal hashing and pairwise
independent random variables; and classical combinatorial stuctures
such as error-correcting codes, balanced incomplete block designs,
difference matrices
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