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On the Security of Multi-secret Visual Cryptography Scheme with Ring Shares

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The International Workshop on Digital Forensics and Watermarking 2012 (IWDW 2012)

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With visual cryptography in mind, the security property of a new scheme is always one of main concerns. However, the ideal security is not taken into account in some visual cryptography schemes sharing multiple secrets. In this paper, the security of a multi-secret visual cryptography scheme proposed by Feng et al. is analyzed. We show that the security of their scheme is not ideal. Precisely, it is insecure since some information of the secret images can be inferred by block attacking the second share alone. The main weak design is proved and shown by means of giving theoretical analysis and conducting some counter experiments.

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Fu, ZX., Yu, B. (2013). On the Security of Multi-secret Visual Cryptography Scheme with Ring Shares. In: Shi, Y.Q., Kim, HJ., Pérez-González, F. (eds) The International Workshop on Digital Forensics and Watermarking 2012. IWDW 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7809. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40099-5_39

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