A Cheat-Prevention Visual Secret Sharing Scheme with Efficient Pixel Expansion

Shenchuan LIU  Masaaki FUJIYOSHI  Hitoshi KIYA  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E96-A    No.11    pp.2134-2141
Publication Date: 2013/11/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1587/transfun.E96.A.2134
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Smart Multimedia & Communication Systems)
Category: Cryptography and Information Security
Keyword: 
visual cryptography,  preventing cheat,  

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Summary: 
This paper proposes a visual secret sharing (VSS) scheme with efficient pixel expansion which prevents malicious share holders from deceiving an honest share holder. A VSS scheme encrypts a secret image into pieces referred to as shares where each party keeps a share so that stacking a sufficient number of shares recovers the secret image. A cheat prevention VSS scheme gives another piece to each party for verifying whether the share presented by another party is genuine. The proposed scheme improves the contrast of the recovered image and cheat-prevention functionality by introducing randomness in producing pieces for verification. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.