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A Novel Image Secret Sharing Scheme without Third-Party Scrambling Method

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Values such as cellular sum in initial configurations and neighbor radius can potentially affect confusion and diffusion in cellular automata. Specifically, both confusion and diffusion characteristics in cellular automata usually are not sufficient to break up the high correlation between the secret image pixels when these two parameters are too small. Thus, using only One-Dimensional Reversible Memory Cellular Automata (ODRM-CA) to generate shadow images will lead to the leakage of original secret image’s information by some shadow images. In order to solve this problem, in this paper, we propose an image secret sharing (ISS) scheme with no third-party scrambling method. This is realized by increasing the values of cellular sum and neighbor radius to implement the scrambling process for the secret image, thus both processes of image scrambling and image secret sharing can be achieved by ODRM-CA. Experimental results show that this scheme can generate strong random shadow images to avoid leaking information of the original secret image.

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Acknowledgments

This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant No. 61802097 and Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (No. LY16F020019).

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  1. School of Cyberspace, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, 310018, China

    Weitong Hu, Ye Yao & Qiuhua Zheng

  2. Zhejiang Uniview Technologies Co., Ltd, Zhejiang, 310018, China

    Di Zhou

  3. Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, 78249- 0631, USA

    Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo

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250 shadows of (2, n)-PISS scheme using GF(251) without scrambling process

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255 shadows of (2, n)-PISS scheme using GF(28) without scrambling process

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300 shadows of (2, n) ODRM-CAISS scheme without scrambling process

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250 shadows of (2, n)-PISS scheme using GF(251) with scrambling process

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255 shadows of (2, n)-PISS scheme using GF(28) with scrambling process

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300 shadows of (2, n) ODRM-CAISS scheme without scrambling process

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Hu, W., Yao, Y., Zhou, D. et al. A Novel Image Secret Sharing Scheme without Third-Party Scrambling Method. Mobile Netw Appl 24, 1317–1335 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-018-1168-y

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