Counting-based secret sharing technique for multimedia applications

• Published in: Multimedia tools and applications Vol. 78; no. 5; pp. 5591 - 5619
• Main Authors: Gutub, Adnan, Al-Juaid, Nouf, Khan, Esam
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.03.2019; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Computer Communication Networks; Computer Science; Computer simulation; Data Structures and Information Theory; Error detection; Multimedia; Multimedia Information Systems; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems; Voting systems; Secret sharing; Key management; Information security; Shares generation; Key distribution technique
• ISSN: 1380-7501; 1573-7721
• DOI: 10.1007/s11042-017-5293-6

Secret Sharing is required in situations where access to important resources has to be protected by more than one person. We propose new secret-sharing scheme that works based on parallel counting of the ones within the shares to generate the secret output. Our work presented two different modeling variations that are mainly different in the secret-sharing keys generation where both are studied elaborating their pros and cons. Our counting-based secret shares key reconstruction is implemented and simulated considering the security level required by the usage functions. Comparisons showed interesting results that are attractive to be considered. This secret sharing method is of great benefit to all multimedia secret sharing applications such as securing bank sensitive accounts and error tracking, voting systems trust, medical agreements, wills and inheritance authentication management.