On the security of multi-secret visual cryptography scheme with ring shares

  • Authors:
  • Zheng-Xin Fu;Bin Yu

  • Affiliations:
  • Zhengzhou Information Science and Technology Institute, P.R. China;Zhengzhou Information Science and Technology Institute, P.R. China

  • Venue:
  • IWDW'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Digital Forensics and Watermaking
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

With visual cryptography in mind, the security property of a new scheme is always one of main concerns. However, the ideal security is not taken into account in some visual cryptography schemes sharing multiple secrets. In this paper, the security of a multi-secret visual cryptography scheme proposed by Feng et al. is analyzed. We show that the security of their scheme is not ideal. Precisely, it is insecure since some information of the secret images can be inferred by block attacking the second share alone. The main weak design is proved and shown by means of giving theoretical analysis and conducting some counter experiments.