scholarly journals A High-Quality Authenticatable Visual Secret Sharing Scheme Using SGX

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Denghui Zhang ◽  
Zhaoquan Gu
Keyword(s):  
Secret Sharing ◽  
Visual Cryptography ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Secret Sharing Scheme ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Secret Image ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Sharing Scheme ◽  
Main Components

Visual cryptography scheme (VCS) is a secret-sharing scheme which encrypts images as shares and can decrypt shares without digital devices. Although a participant can reveal the secret image by merely stacking a sufficient number of shares, the visual quality of recovered images is reduced, and malicious adversaries can cheat participants by giving faked shares. The paper presents a novel VCS called T-VCS (trusted VCS) which consists of two main components: a high-quality VCS and an enhanced verification scheme of shares based on the emerging Intel Software Guard eXtensions (SGX). While providing high-quality recovery, T-VCS keeps the size of the shares the same as the original secret image. We use SGX to act as a trusted third party (TTP) to verify the validity of the shares in an attested enclave without degrading the image quality. The experimental results show that T-VCS can achieve a balance among contrast, share size, and verification efficiency.

scholarly journals Threshold Secret Sharing Scheme for Compartmented Access Structures

Cryptography ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 438-448
Author(s):  
P. Mohamed Fathimal ◽  
P. Arockia Jansi Rani
Keyword(s):  
Secret Sharing ◽  
Visual Cryptography ◽  
Secret Sharing Scheme ◽  
Secret Image ◽  
Access Structures ◽  
Sharing Scheme ◽  
Single Host ◽  
Compartmented Access Structures ◽  
Key Features

In the realm of visual cryptography, secret sharing is the predominant method of transmission and reception of secure data. Most of the (n, n) secret sharing schemes suffer from one common flaw — locking of information when the all- n number of receivers are not available for some reason. This paper proposes a new method of compartmented secret sharing scheme where some threshold number of equally privileged from each compartment can retrieve data. This scheme rules out regeneration of secret image at the single compartment thereby eliminating the danger of misusing secret image. The key features of this scheme are: better visual quality of the recovered image with no pixel expansion; non-requirement of half toning of color images; less computational complexity by reconstructing secret through XORing and simple addition of all share images. This scheme is highly beneficial in applications where data has to be stored securely in a database and in cloud computing to synchronize information passed to different groups or clusters from a single host.

Threshold Secret Sharing Scheme for Compartmented Access Structures

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
P. Mohamed Fathimal ◽  
P. Arockia Jansi Rani
Keyword(s):  
Secret Sharing ◽  
Visual Cryptography ◽  
Secret Sharing Scheme ◽  
Secret Image ◽  
Access Structures ◽  
Sharing Scheme ◽  
Single Compartment ◽  
Single Host ◽  
Compartmented Access Structures

In the realm of visual cryptography, secret sharing is the predominant method of transmission and reception of secure data. Most of the (n, n) secret sharing schemes suffer from one common flaw — locking of information when the all- n number of receivers are not available for some reason. This paper proposes a new method of compartmented secret sharing scheme where some threshold number of equally privileged from each compartment can retrieve data. This scheme rules out regeneration of secret image at the single compartment thereby eliminating the danger of misusing secret image. The key features of this scheme are: better visual quality of the recovered image with no pixel expansion; non-requirement of half toning of color images; less computational complexity by reconstructing secret through XORing and simple addition of all share images. This scheme is highly beneficial in applications where data has to be stored securely in a database and in cloud computing to synchronize information passed to different groups or clusters from a single host.

scholarly journals VISUAL CRYPTOGRAPHY FOR COLOR IMAGES

2013 ◽  
pp. 147-149
Author(s):  
ASHWATHIMESANGLA AO
Keyword(s):  
Secret Sharing ◽  
Visual Cryptography ◽  
Color Images ◽  
Secret Sharing Scheme ◽  
Secret Image ◽  
Secret Information ◽  
Host Image ◽  
Sharing Scheme ◽  
Visual Cryptography Scheme

Visual cryptography is a secret sharing scheme for encrypting a secret image, it is a perfectly secure way that allows secret sharing without any cryptographic computation, which is termed as Visual Cryptography Scheme (VCS). In this paper secret image is divided into shares (printed on transparencies), and each share holds some information. At the receiver this shares are merged to obtain the secret information which is revealed without any complex computation. The proposed algorithm is for color host image, divided into three color planes Red, Green, Blue and merged with secret image which is binarized and divided into shares. The decoding requires aligning the result obtained by merging color host image and shares, so as to obtain the secret image.

scholarly journals An Antiquity to the contemporary of Secret Sharing Scheme

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ms. CHITRA K. ◽  
Dr. V. PRASANNA VENKATESAN
Keyword(s):  
Secret Sharing ◽  
Visual Cryptography ◽  
Secret Sharing Scheme ◽  
Generation Process ◽  
Boolean Operation ◽  
Secret Image ◽  
Sharing Scheme ◽  
Reconstruction Image ◽  
Secret Reconstruction ◽  
Sharing Patterns

Secret Sharing (SS) scheme divides a secret image into shadow images (referred to as shares) in a way that requires the shadows in a certain privileged coalition for the secret reconstruction. However, the secret image cannot be revealed if they are not combined in a prescribed way. In this paper, the evolution of the traditional secret sharing scheme to the contemporary of secret sharing scheme has been presented based on its technology adoption. The basic comparison between the traditional secret sharing scheme and Visual cryptography is presented. The image-based share generation process has been explained in the context of pixel sharing patterns and its process. The reconstruction image is obtained by the XOR /OR Boolean operation. The threshold-based share generation schemes are explained mathematically and the comparative analysis of these schemes also presented.

LOSSLESS SECRET SHARING SCHEME WITH HIGH QUALITY SHARES BASED ON VQ-COMPRESSED IMAGES

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (04) ◽  
pp. 529-546
Author(s):  
CHIN-CHEN CHANG ◽  
KUO-NAN CHEN ◽  
NGOC-TU HUYNH
Keyword(s):  
Secret Sharing ◽  
Secret Sharing Scheme ◽  
Compression Method ◽  
Pixel Expansion ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Secret Image ◽  
Compressed Images ◽  
Sharing Scheme ◽  
Xor Operation

In this paper, we propose an efficient secret sharing scheme without pixel expansion. The scheme first uses the VQ-compression method to compress a secret image. This allows senders to share a larger secret image than other methods. Moreover, the proposed method also allows participants to reconstruct a lossless secret image. The generated shadows are meaningful with high quality, so the image does not attract any suspicion from attackers. Because the scheme uses XOR operation during the construction and revealing phases, it is suitable for secret sharing applications.

scholarly journals Collusion Attacks in XOR Based RG-VSS

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 2339-2345
Keyword(s):  
Secret Sharing ◽  
Data Security ◽  
Visual Cryptography ◽  
Visual Quality ◽  
Visual Secret Sharing ◽  
Security Issue ◽  
Collusion Attacks ◽  
Secret Image ◽  
The Past

Visual secret sharing (VSS) is a well-known technique from the past few decades for data security. Recently, XOR based VSS has attracted many researchers due to its lossless or good visual quality of reconstructed secret image. Cheating in visual cryptography based VSS was introduced by Horng et. al. in 2006. Cheating occurs when a dishonest participant presents fake share and performs stacking of fake share with honest participants who have genuine share, thereby revealing the fake secret image instead of the original secret image. Cheating occurs when some XOR based VSS are exposed to collusion attacks. Here, in this paper, we have demonstrated and proved that there is a security issue in existing XOR based VSS schemes.

scholarly journals (3, 3) Visual Cryptography for Online Certificate Authentication

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 152-156
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Secret Sharing ◽  
Visual Cryptography ◽  
Secret Message ◽  
Secret Sharing Scheme ◽  
Visual Secret Sharing ◽  
Job Interview ◽  
Sharing Scheme ◽  
Visual Cryptography Scheme ◽  
Full Proof

Today organizations face a challenge while recruiting candidates, who provide forged mark sheets in order to get a job. To prevent wrong hiring a detailed and thorough approach is needed to verify the authentication of both the candidate and the marks obtained by him/her. There are so many modern cryptographic protocols available which can be used for authenticating individual’s academic achievement certificates. Visual Cryptography is a simple and secure way to allow the secret sharing of images without any cryptographic computations or the use of encryption or decryption keys. The novelty of the visual secret sharing scheme is in its decryption process where human visual system (HVS) is employed for decryption of secret shares. In this paper we have discussed (3, 3) visual cryptography scheme which can be used to generate shares and distributes them among three parties, i.e. the Job Seeker, Certificate Issuance Authority and the Organization conducting Job interview. Secret message can be decrypted only if all the three shares are available. Every certificate carries a unique number which is encrypted using visual cryptography and without handshaking of all the parties it is impossible to decrypt, thus ensuring full proof authentication.

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