Secure and efficient arithmetic-based multi-secret image sharing scheme using universal share

摘要

Visual secret sharing (VSS) scheme is an encryption technique to hide secret message into two or more meaningless images, called as shares. Shares are stack together to decrypt the secret message using human visual system. To share many secrets, multi-secret image sharing schemes are often used. Diversity in sharing multiple secrets is using the universal share. Company organizer shares multiple secret images using this common share. Computation cost is the major drawback of such scheme. This study presents computationally efficient arithmetic-based multi-secret image sharing scheme using the universal share. Binary arithmetic-based scheme utilizes distinct value selecting function while encoding and decoding of secret images. Distinct value selecting function enhances randomness property of shares and fulfills threshold property. Thus, the proposed method provides computationally efficient method while satisfying threshold security criteria. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.