A novel addition based image sharing scheme for secure communication of highly secret images

While transmitting secret data over Internet our whole concern is to make it secure before transmission so that it should not be disclosed to pirates. In this paper, a novel, addition based image sharing (n, n) scheme, has been proposed for Secure Communication of Secret Images. In this proposed approach the secret image is transformed and then the shares of the transformed image are generated. These shares are then transmitted individually. We have used matrix addition for the construction of image shares & reconstruction of secret images from the image shares resulting the scheme with very low computational complexity and highly secured. The scheme is applicable for any of the binary, grayscale and color image. Experimental results show that this scheme is simple and effective. Efficacy of the program (developed) has been tested on Matlab and the results obtained are satisfactory and in conformity with those reported earlier.