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A private-key cryptosystem can be obtained using the visual cryptography concepts or perfect-reconstruction based image secret sharing.
A (2, 2)-scheme is the most popular solution within the (k, n) framework due to its common acceptance as a private-key cryptosystem [1–3]. Such a cryptographic solution encrypts the secret image into two noise-like shares. One of the two generated shares can be viewed as a private share or private-key, and is kept by the owner. The other share represents a public share which can be transmitted over an untrusted communication channel. The secret image is reconstructed only if both the public and private shares are used for decryption.
A private-key cryptosystem can be obtained using the visual cryptography concepts [1] or perfect-reconstruction based image secret sharing [2]. Both these solutions encrypt each pixel of the secret image into a block of share pixels and because of their expansion nature, such solutions produce the shares with...
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(2008). Private-Key Cryptosystem. In: Furht, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Multimedia. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78414-4_184
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