Sharing secrets in stego images with authentication

  • Authors:

  • Chin-Chen Chang;Yi-Pei Hsieh;Chia-Hsuan Lin

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, 100 Wenhwa Rd., Seatwen, Taichung 40724, Taiwan, ROC and Department of Computer Science and Information Engineerin ...;Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi 621, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, 100 Wenhwa Rd., Seatwen, Taichung 40724, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Recently, Lin and Tsai and Yang et al. proposed secret image sharing schemes with steganography and authentication, which divide a secret image into the shadows and embed the produced shadows in the cover images to form the stego images so as to be transmitted to authorized recipients securely. In addition, these schemes also involve their authentication mechanisms to verify the integrity of the stego images such that the secret image can be restored correctly. Unfortunately, these schemes still have two shortcomings. One is that the weak authentication cannot well protect the integrity of the stego images, so the secret image cannot be recovered completely. The other shortcoming is that the visual quality of the stego images is not good enough. To overcome such drawbacks, in this paper, we propose a novel secret image sharing scheme combining steganography and authentication based on Chinese remainder theorem (CRT). The proposed scheme not only improves the authentication ability but also enhances the visual quality of the stego images. The experimental results show that the proposed scheme is superior to the previously existing methods.