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Distortion less secret image sharing scheme for Internet of Things system

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Secret image sharing is the study of sharing a secret image with several participants to prevent the malicious participant obtaining information about the secret image. Traditional methods generate meaningless shares, which are unintelligible and easily lead to suspicions of secret image encryption. Rather, sharing methods with steganography were studied. In this paper, a novel secret sharing scheme for image is proposed based on Shamir’s polynomials with steganography the Internet of Things (IoT) system, where IoT devices could share images seamlessly between them over cloud. In this proposed method, secret shares are generated from the cover image and secret information, and the shares of IoT services are embedded back to the cover image based on on \(2^{4}\)-ary notational system, which creates stego-shadow images. Experimental results and analysis show that the proposed scheme can recover both the secret information and cover image lossless. Besides, it achieves high embedding capacity, obtains stego-shadow images of high quality and resists the histogram analysis.

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The authors are grateful to the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Saud University for funding this paper through the Vice Deanship of Scientific Research Chairs, and Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong province, China (No. 2015A030310172).

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  1. Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology, Shenzhen, 518172, China

    Li Li

  2. Department of Software Engineering, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11543, Saudi Arabia

    M. Shamim Hossain & M. F. Alhamid

  3. Chair of Pervasive and Mobile Computing, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    M. Shamim Hossain

  4. Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Menoufia University, Shebin El-Koom, 32511, Egypt

    Ahmed A. Abd El-Latif

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Li, L., Hossain, M.S., El-Latif, A.A.A. et al. Distortion less secret image sharing scheme for Internet of Things system. Cluster Comput 22 (Suppl 1), 2293–2307 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-017-1345-y

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