Sharing a Secret Gray Image in Multiple Images

  • Authors:
  • C-C. Chang;T-X. Yu

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • CW '02 Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Cyber Worlds (CW'02)
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In the traditional visual cryptography scheme, a sharedsecret image can be revealed without any cryptographiccomputations. Unfortunately, the revealed secret imageof the conventional visual cryptography scheme is almostblack and white. Recently, some colored visual cryptographyschemes based on modified visual cryptography havebeen proposed. By means of a few additional computations,users can hide a colored secret image into some shares.However, the size of the shares and the implementation complexityin these schemes depend on the number of colors appearingin the secret image. In other words, when the secretimage contains a great number of colors, these schemes willbecome impractical. In this paper, we propose a new secretcolor image sharing scheme based on modified visual cryptography.This scheme provides a more efficient way to hidea gray image (256-colors) in different shares. Furthermore,the size of the shares is fixed; it does not vary when the numberof colors appearing in the secret image differs.