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Essential visual cryptographic scheme with different importance of shares

  • Xuehu Yan
  • , Shen Wang*
  • , Xiamu Niu
  • , Ching Nung Yang
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Essential secret image sharing scheme allows some participants own special privileges with different importance of shares. The beauty of visual cryptographic scheme (VCS) is that its decoding is based on stacking and human visual system (HVS) without cryptographic computation. In this paper, for the first time essential and non-essential VCS (ENVCS) is introduced based on pre-existed (k, n) VCS. In the proposed (k0, n0, k, n) ENVCS, we generate the secret image into n shares which are classified into n0 essential shares and n - n0 non-essential shares. In the decoding phase, in order to reveal secret we should collect at least k shares, among which there are at least k0 essential shares. Experiments are conducted to evaluate the security and efficiency of the proposed scheme.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNeural Information Processing - 21st International Conference, ICONIP 2014, Proceedings
EditorsChu Kiong Loo, Keem Siah Yap, Kok Wai Wong, Andrew Teoh, Kaizhu Huang
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages636-643
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9783319126425
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8836
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Keywords

  • Essential secret sharing
  • Essential visual cryptographic scheme
  • Secret sharing
  • Visual cryptographic scheme

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