XOR-ed Based Friendly-Progressive Secret Sharing

Abstract

This paper presents a simple approach for secret sharing under the bitwise eXclusive-OR (XOR) framework. The proposed method extends the effectiveness of Progressive Secret Sharing (PSS) into the Friendly Secret Sharing (FSS). The PSS produces a set of shared images in noisy-like form, while FSS generates shared images into more-visually-friendly appearance. The proposed method offers lossless ability in the recovery result of secret image. At the same time, it shows superiority compared to the former existing scheme in the secret sharing task.