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Secret image sharing with separate shadow authentication ability

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Jingju LiuAuthors Info & Claims

Volume 82, Issue C

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.image.2019.115721

Published: 01 March 2020 Publication History

Abstract

Secret image sharing (SIS) is attracting increasing attention due to its wide application to the distributed storage of digital images in a cloud and the importance of digital images. Shadow authentication plays an important role in the practical application of SIS. However, most SIS schemes with shadow authentication ability embed each shadow into a cover image using an existing information hiding technique, which leads to high generation and recovery (authentication) complexity and pixel expansion. In this paper, we propose an SIS scheme for a ( k, n ) threshold with a separate shadow authentication ability based on SIS itself rather than information hiding through applying visual secret sharing (VSS) to polynomial-based SIS by using a screening operation. The proposed scheme has low generation and recovery (authentication) complexity and no pixel expansion with a separate shadow authentication ability. In addition, it achieves lossless recovery without auxiliary encryption. We validate the proposed scheme by means of illustrations, theoretical analyses and comparisons.

Highlights

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SIS with a separate shadow authentication ability is proposed.

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The secret image is losslessly recovered without auxiliary encryption.

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It has low recovery (authentication) complexity and no pixel expansion.

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Bhat KJinwala DPrasad YZaveri M(2023)Security Analysis of Visual based Share Authentication and Algorithms for Invalid Shares Generation in Malicious ModelProceedings of the 2023 5th International Conference on Image Processing and Machine Vision10.1145/3582177.3582192(86-92)Online publication date: 13-Jan-2023
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Index Terms

Secret image sharing with separate shadow authentication ability
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
  2. Computer graphics
    1. Image manipulation
2. Security and privacy
  1. Cryptography
  2. Security services
    1. Authentication

Index terms have been assigned to the content through auto-classification.

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Image Communication Volume 82, Issue C

Mar 2020

214 pages

ISSN:0923-5965

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Bhat KJinwala DPrasad YZaveri M(2023)Security Analysis of Visual based Share Authentication and Algorithms for Invalid Shares Generation in Malicious ModelProceedings of the 2023 5th International Conference on Image Processing and Machine Vision10.1145/3582177.3582192(86-92)Online publication date: 13-Jan-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3582177.3582192
Yan XLi LSun LChen JWang S(2022)Fake and Dishonest Participant Immune Secret Image SharingACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications10.1145/357284219:4(1-26)Online publication date: 24-Nov-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3572842
Gunasekaran EMuthuraman V(2022)Double layer secure secret images sharing scheme for biometricsDistributed and Parallel Databases10.1007/s10619-021-07362-x40:4(861-885)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10619-021-07362-x
Zhang LWang TZheng XYang JLv L(2021)Secret Image-Sharing Scheme Based on Multinode Authentication in the Internet of ThingsSecurity and Communication Networks10.1155/2021/17219252021Online publication date: 1-Jan-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1155/2021/1721925

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