Determining the optimal contrast for secret sharing schemes in visual cryptography

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1776 LNCS, Issue , 2000, Pages 280-291

  Krause, Matthias ^a   Simon, Hans Ulrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ERRORS; K-OUT-OF-N; LARGE N; SECRET SHARING SCHEMES; VISUAL CRYPTOGRAPHY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS; INFORMATION SCIENCE;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 84896741046     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/10719839_29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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