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A Secret Sharing Scheme for Quantum Gray and Color Images Based on Encryption

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This paper is concerned with the better security of quantum image secret sharing (QISS) algorithm. The improved QISS (IQISS) scheme is implemented on both quantum gray image (FRQI) and quantum color image (MCQI). The new IQISS scheme comprises efficient sharing process and recovering process. The core idea of the sharing process is to combine encryption and measurement for two types of quantum secret images to acquire the quantum shadow images. In the recovering process, strip operation is firstly utilized on the shadow images. Afterwards, the decryption algorithm is used to recover the original quantum secret image. Experiments demonstrate that significant improvements in the security are in favor of the proposed approach.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61501148), the Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province (QC2017075), the Postdoctoral Research Foundation of China (2018M631914) and the Heilongjiang Provincial Postdoctoral Science Foundation (CN) (LBH-Z17042) and the Training Program for Young Creative Talents of Ordinary Universities in Heilongjiang (UNPYSCT-2017078).

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    Hui-Qiang Wang & Xian-Hua Song

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    Xian-Hua Song, Li-Li Chen & Wei Xie

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Wang, HQ., Song, XH., Chen, LL. et al. A Secret Sharing Scheme for Quantum Gray and Color Images Based on Encryption. Int J Theor Phys 58, 1626–1650 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-019-04057-z

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