VMVC: Verifiable multi-tone visual cryptography

doi:10.1007/s11042-017-4422-6

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VMVC: Verifiable multi-tone visual cryptography

2017-02-21

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Shivendra Shivani *

DOI：10.1007/s11042-017-4422-6

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Traditional k out of n threshold visual cryptography scheme is proposed to hide a secret image into n shares, where only k or more shares can visually reveal the secret image. Most of the previous state of art approaches on visual cryptography are almost restricted in processing of binary images as secret, which are inadequate for many applications like securely transmission of medical images(Store and Forward Telemedicine), forensic images etc. In this paper, a new Verifiable Multi-toned Visual Cryptography (VMVC) scheme is proposed to securely transmit the confidential images on web. Proposed approach also provides cheating prevention, since each pixel of shares contains a self embedding verifiable bit for integrity test of that pixel. Many existing approaches are suffering from many unnecessary encryption constraints like random shares, codebook requirement, contrast loss etc, which all are successfully addressed in proposed approach. Some comparisons with previously proposed methods are also made. Experimental results and analysis are used to prove the efficiency of proposed approach.

Keywords:

Verifiable visual cryptography

Multi-toned visual cryptography

Secret sharing

Meaningful shares

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