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This paper proposes a novel user-friendly visual cryptography scheme for multiple secret sharing. We have generated meaningful shares for multiple secret images using cover images. These meaningful shares are shared among participants. All the shares are required to recover secret images that are shared. The proposed scheme uses Boolean-based operations for generating meaningful shares and recovering all secret images that are used. The proposed scheme achieved lossless recovery of multiple secrets and overcomes the problem of management of meaningless shares.
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Siva Reddy, L., Prasad, M.V.N.K. (2016). Extended Visual Cryptography Scheme for Multi-secret Sharing. In: Nagar, A., Mohapatra, D., Chaki, N. (eds) Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking and Informatics. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 44. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2529-4_26
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