Image Secret Sharing Construction for General Access Structure with Meaningful Share

This article describes how the (k, n) threshold image secret sharing technology can recover the secret image even n − k shares are lost, or n−k servers do not work, which is useful for cloud storage, etc. Image secret sharing for general access structure (GAS) is more general than (k, n) threshold. Image secret sharing with a meaningful share will decrease encryption suspicion so that the security can be enhanced. However, traditional studies have no image secret sharing construction approach for GAS with a meaningful share. In the article, they first exploit an image secret sharing construction approach for GAS with meaningful share. Following their construction approach, the authors develop a random grid (RG)-based visual secret sharing (VSS) algorithm for GAS with meaningful share as well as polynomial-based image secret sharing for GAS with meaningful share. The experiments with this concept exhibit the effectiveness of the algorithms and further their construction approach.