Secure and Verifiable (2, 2) Secret Sharing Scheme for Binary Images
Visual Cryptography is a technique in which a secret is encrypted into several image shares and then decrypted later using a human visual system to stack all the share images. Conventional visual cryptography methods divide a secret image into n shares (shadows) and distribute these shares to n participants. But in network while transmission the shadows can be changed by attackers or damaged. To remedy such kind of vulnerabilities verifiability of shadows can be a solution. Watermarking can add verifiability to secret sharing. But the shadows are meaningless which can attract the attacker€™s attention. The proposed scheme embeds created shadows in cover images which make them more secure. In this paper we have explained how a low computational complexity visual secret sharing scheme is verifiable and more secure by combining Watermarking and Steganography.
Keywords: Network Security, Visual Cryptography, Secret Sharing, Verifiable Secret Sharing, Steganography
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Sonali Patil
Sonali Patil is currently pursuing her doctorate in computer engineering at Amravati University, Maharashtra, India. She has completed her Master of Engineering (ME) in Computer Engineering in 2008 and Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Computer Engineering in 2003. Her area of research is Secret Sharing.
Sandip Sathe
Student, Computer Department, Pimpri Chinchwad Colege of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Pravin Mehetre
Student, Computer Department, Pimpri Chinchwad Colege of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Deepak Shinde
Student, Computer Department, Pimpri Chinchwad Colege of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Kiran Bhalerao
Student, Computer Department, Pimpri Chinchwad Colege of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Pawankumar Pandey
Student, Computer Department, Pimpri Chinchwad Colege of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Sonali Patil
Sonali Patil is currently pursuing her doctorate in computer engineering at Amravati University, Maharashtra, India. She has completed her Master of Engineering (ME) in Computer Engineering in 2008 and Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Computer Engineering in 2003. Her area of research is Secret Sharing.
Sandip Sathe
Student, Computer Department, Pimpri Chinchwad Colege of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Pravin Mehetre
Student, Computer Department, Pimpri Chinchwad Colege of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Deepak Shinde
Student, Computer Department, Pimpri Chinchwad Colege of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Kiran Bhalerao
Student, Computer Department, Pimpri Chinchwad Colege of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Pawankumar Pandey
Student, Computer Department, Pimpri Chinchwad Colege of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra, India
