Secure information display by use of multiple decoding masks

Hirotsugu Yamamoto; Yoshio Hayasaki; Nobuo Nishida

doi:10.1117/12.572866

25 October 2004 Secure information display by use of multiple decoding masks

Hirotsugu Yamamoto, Yoshio Hayasaki, Nobuo Nishida

Proceedings Volume 5600, Multimedia Systems and Applications VII; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.572866
Event: Optics East, 2004, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Abstract

Security has become an important issue as information technology has become increasingly pervasive in our everyday lives. Security risks arise with a display that shows decrypted information. In this paper, we propose a secure information display technique by use of visual cryptography. Its decryption requires no special computing devices and is implemented using only human vision. To improve security of the key to decode the encrypted displayed image, multiple decoding masks have been constructed based on visual secret sharing scheme. The proposed display appears as a random pattern to anyone who looks at it unless the person views the displayed image through stacked multiple decoding masks. We have constructed code sets to share the secret image information with a displayed image and multiple decoding masks. The decoding process is a kind of optical processing based on spatial encoding and it needs no computer calculation, which means that no decrypted data exists in a computer system. Thus, the proposed display technique is secure against theft of the decrypted data and eavesdropping of the display signals, and provides a limited viewing zone. Multiple decoding masks increase security of the decoding masks.

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Hirotsugu Yamamoto, Yoshio Hayasaki, and Nobuo Nishida "Secure information display by use of multiple decoding masks", Proc. SPIE 5600, Multimedia Systems and Applications VII, (25 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.572866

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