scholarly journals A Maze Matrix-Based Secret Image Sharing Scheme with Cheater Detection

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (13) ◽  
pp. 3802 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ching-Chun Chang ◽  
Ji-Hwei Horng ◽  
Chia-Shou Shih ◽  
Chin-Chen Chang
Keyword(s):  
Secret Message ◽  
Secret Image Sharing ◽  
Secret Data ◽  
Stego Image ◽  
Detection Mechanism ◽  
Lagrange Polynomials ◽  
Secret Image ◽  
Image Sharing ◽  
Sharing Scheme ◽  
Secret Image Sharing Scheme

Secret image sharing is a technique for sharing a secret message in such a fashion that stego image shadows are generated and distributed to individual participants. Without the complete set of shadows shared among all participants, the secret could not be deciphered. This technique may serve as a crucial means for protecting private data in massive Internet of things applications. This can be realized by distributing the stego image shadows to different devices on the Internet so that only the ones who are authorized to access these devices can extract the secret message. In this paper, we proposed a secret image sharing scheme based on a novel maze matrix. A pair of image shadows were produced by hiding secret data into two distinct cover images under the guidance of the maze matrix. A two-layered cheat detection mechanism was devised based on the special characteristics of the proposed maze matrix. In addition to the conventional joint cheating detection, the proposed scheme was able to identify the tampered shadow presented by a cheater without the information from other shadows. Furthermore, in order to improve time efficiency, we derived a pair of Lagrange polynomials to compute the exact pixel values of the shadow images instead of resorting to time-consuming and computationally expensive conventional searching strategies. Experimental results demonstrated the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed secret sharing scheme and cheat detection mechanism.

scholarly journals A Verifiable Steganography-Based Secret Image Sharing Scheme in 5G Networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Shiyue Qin ◽  
Zhenhua Tan ◽  
Fucai Zhou ◽  
Jian Xu ◽  
Zongye Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Secret Image Sharing ◽  
5G Networks ◽  
Dynamic Features ◽  
Stego Image ◽  
Collusion Attack ◽  
Secret Image ◽  
Image Sharing ◽  
Replacement Method ◽  
Sharing Scheme ◽  
Secret Image Sharing Scheme

With the development and innovation of new techniques for 5G, 5G networks can provide extremely large capacity, robust integrity, high bandwidth, and low latency for multimedia image sharing and storage. However, it will surely exacerbate the privacy problems intrinsic to image transformation. Due to the high security and reliability requirements for storing and sharing sensitive images in the 5G network environment, verifiable steganography-based secret image sharing (SIS) is attracting increasing attention. The verifiable capability is necessary to ensure the correct image reconstruction. From the literature, efficient cheating verification, lossless reconstruction, low reconstruct complexity, and high-quality stego images without pixel expansion are summarized as the primary goals of proposing an effective steganography-based SIS scheme. Compared with the traditional underlying techniques for SIS, cellular automata (CA) and matrix projection have more strengths as well as some weaknesses. In this paper, we perform a complimentary of these two techniques to propose a verifiable secret image sharing scheme, where CA is used to enhance the security of the secret image, and matrix projection is used to generate shadows with a smaller size. From the steganography perspective, instead of the traditional least significant bits replacement method, matrix encoding is used in this paper to improve the embedding efficiency and stego image quality. Therefore, we can simultaneously achieve the above goals and achieve proactive and dynamic features based on matrix projection. Such features can make the proposed SIS scheme more applicable to flexible 5G networks. Finally, the security analysis illustrates that our scheme can effectively resist the collusion attack and detect the shadow tampering over the persistent adversary. The analyses for performance and comparative demonstrate that our scheme is a better performer among the recent schemes with the perspective of functionality, visual quality, embedding ratio, and computational efficiency. Therefore, our scheme further strengthens security for the images in 5G networks.

scholarly journals A Novel Threshold Changeable Secret Image Sharing Scheme

Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 286
Author(s):  
Guohua Wu ◽  
Mingyao Wang ◽  
Qiuhua Wang ◽  
Ye Yao ◽  
Lifeng Yuan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Secret Image Sharing ◽  
Stego Image ◽  
Secret Image ◽  
Image Sharing ◽  
Sharing Scheme ◽  
Engineering Drawings ◽  
Secret Image Sharing Scheme

In secret image sharing, the image is divided into several stego images, which are managed by corresponding participants. The secret image can be recovered only when the number of authorized participants is no less than the threshold. Thus, it is widely used to protect essential images, such as engineering drawings and product design drawings. In the traditional secret image sharing scheme, the threshold is fixed and unique. However, in practice, the security policy and the adversarial structure may change; therefore, the threshold must be adjusted dynamically. In this paper, we propose a novel secret image sharing scheme with a changeable threshold capability. Our scheme eliminates the limit of the changeable threshold and reduces the computation required. Also, our scheme is the first threshold changeable secret image sharing scheme that can recover an undistorted cover image. The theoretical analysis shows that our scheme is safe even if the threshold is changed. The experiments demonstrated that the stego image generated by our algorithm has better quality than other changeable-threshold, secret image sharing algorithms.

Distortion less secret image sharing scheme for Internet of Things system

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (S1) ◽  
pp. 2293-2307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Li ◽  
M. Shamim Hossain ◽  
Ahmed A. Abd El-Latif ◽  
M. F. Alhamid
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Secret Image Sharing ◽  
Secret Image ◽  
Image Sharing ◽  
Sharing Scheme ◽  
Secret Image Sharing Scheme

scholarly journals A Novel (2, 3)-Threshold Reversible Secret Image Sharing Scheme Based on Optimized Crystal-Lattice Matrix

Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 2063
Author(s):  
Jiang-Yi Lin ◽  
Ji-Hwei Horng ◽  
Chin-Chen Chang
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Lattice ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Lattice Models ◽  
Cover Image ◽  
Secret Image Sharing ◽  
Secret Data ◽  
Secret Image ◽  
Image Sharing ◽  
Sharing Scheme ◽  
Growth Phenomenon

The (k, n)-threshold reversible secret image sharing (RSIS) is technology that conceals the secret data in a cover image and produces n shadow versions. While k (kn) or more shadows are gathered, the embedded secret data and the cover image can be retrieved without any error. This article proposes an optimal (2, 3) RSIS algorithm based on a crystal-lattice matrix. Sized by the assigned embedding capacity, a crystal-lattice model is first generated by simulating the crystal growth phenomenon with a greedy algorithm. A three-dimensional (3D) reference matrix based on translationally symmetric alignment of crystal-lattice models is constructed to guide production of the three secret image shadows. Any two of the three different shares can cooperate to restore the secret data and the cover image. When all three image shares are available, the third share can be applied to authenticate the obtained image shares. Experimental results prove that the proposed scheme can produce secret image shares with a better visual quality than other related works.

Progressive secret image sharing scheme using meaningful shadows

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (17) ◽  
pp. 4075-4088 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhi-Hui Wang ◽  
Ya-Feng Di ◽  
Jianjun Li ◽  
Chin-Chen Chang ◽  
Hui Liu
Keyword(s):  
Secret Image Sharing ◽  
Secret Image ◽  
Image Sharing ◽  
Sharing Scheme ◽  
Secret Image Sharing Scheme

A novel secret image sharing scheme for true-color images with size constraint

2009 ◽  
Vol 179 (19) ◽  
pp. 3247-3254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Du-Shiau Tsai ◽  
Gwoboa Horng ◽  
Tzung-Her Chen ◽  
Yao-Te Huang
Keyword(s):  
Color Images ◽  
Secret Image Sharing ◽  
Secret Image ◽  
Image Sharing ◽  
Sharing Scheme ◽  
True Color ◽  
Secret Image Sharing Scheme
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