Reversible Data Hiding in Encrypted Image Using Multiple Data-Hiders Sharing Algorithm

• Published in: Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 25; no. 2; p. 209
• Main Authors: Weng, Chi-Yao, Yang, Cheng-Hsing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 21.01.2023; MDPI
• Subjects: Algorithms; Data encryption; Embedding; encrypted image; Encryption; Image processing; Mathematical analysis; Methods; multi-hider mechanism; Pixels; Polynomials; reversible data hiding; secret sharing; China; reversible data hiding; encrypted image; multi-hider mechanism; secret sharing
• ISSN: 1099-4300; 1099-4300
• DOI: 10.3390/e25020209

Reversible Data Hiding in Encrypted Image (RDHEI) is a technology for embedding secret information in an encrypted image. It allows the extraction of secret information and lossless decryption and the reconstruction of the original image. This paper proposes an RDHEI technique based on Shamir’s Secret Sharing technique and multi-project construction technique. Our approach is to let the image owner hide the pixel values in the coefficients of the polynomial by grouping the pixels and constructing a polynomial. Then, we substitute the secret key into the polynomial through Shamir’s Secret Sharing technology. It enables the Galois Field calculation to generate the shared pixels. Finally, we divide the shared pixels into 8 bits and allocate them to the pixels of the shared image. Thus, the embedded space is vacated, and the generated shared image is hidden in the secret message. The experimental results demonstrate that our approach has a multi-hider mechanism and each shared image has a fixed embedding rate, which does not decrease as more images are shared. Additionally, the embedding rate is improved compared with the previous approach.