Authentication Mechanism for Secret Sharing Using Boolean Operation

AlosslessimagesecretsharingusingasimpleBooleanoperationisproposed.Theconceptofvisualcryptographyinthesecretsharingschemeisusedtoredesignalosslesssecretsharingscheme.Toensurethatthereconstructedimageisthetruesecretimage,anauthenticationmechanismisimportedintotheproposedschemetoverifywhethertheshadowsareauthenticbeforereconstructingthesecretimage.TheproposedschemedeliversmuchmoreeffectiveperformancethanChenandWu'sscheme.