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Design a new visual cryptography for human-verifiable authentication in accessing a database

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Visual cryptographic scheme (VCS) has an attractive property of decoding that can be performed directly by the human visual system without any computation. This novel stacking-to-see property of VCS can be secure and cheap used for visual authentication in accessing a data base. In this paper, we design a new participant-specific VCS (PSVCS) to extend the authentication scenario from a single-client authentication in VCS-based authentication schemes to a group of clients with specific threshold property. The proposed (\(t, k, n\))-PSVCS, where \(t\, \le \,k \,\le\, n\), needs \(t\) specific participants and other (\(k-t\)) participants to decode the secret image. When compared with previous VCS-based authentication schemes, our PSVCS-based authentication can provide different privileges to clients and is more suitable for real environment.

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported in part by Ministry of Science and Technology, under Grant 102-2221-E-259 -009 -MY2 and 103-2221-E-259-015. This research was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (20120192).

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  1. Department of CSIE, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan

    Ching-Nung Yang & Li-Zhe Sun

  2. School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

    Xuehu Yan

  3. Department of Digital Media Engineering, Anyang University, Anyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea

    Cheonshik Kim

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Yang, CN., Sun, LZ., Yan, X. et al. Design a new visual cryptography for human-verifiable authentication in accessing a database. J Real-Time Image Proc 12, 483–494 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11554-015-0511-9

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