The document summarizes a proposed method for enhancing iris scanning security using visual cryptography. It begins with an abstract describing iris scanning biometrics and the issue of securely storing templates in a database. It then proposes using visual cryptography to divide scanned iris images into shares that are stored instead of the original template. The document provides background on iris scanning and visual cryptography. It describes the proposed system architecture which uses visual cryptography to generate two shares from the iris template during enrollment - one stored in the database and one kept privately. During authentication, the iris is rescanned and compared to the stored share template for verification. Future work could extend this approach to work with color iris images. The visual cryptography method is concluded to generate meaningful shares for more secure and