Quantum visual multi-tone secret sharing scheme based on color encoding
摘要
Current quantum visual secret sharing (QVSS) schemes are mainly limited to encrypting black-and-white binary images, which is one of their major key problems. To solve this problem, we propose a new quantum visual multi-tone secret sharing (QVMTSS) scheme. In the sharing phase, we first encrypt the whole quantum image using a novel enhanced quantum representation (NEQR). This avoids individual pixel processing while achieving the encryption of the four-tone image. Subsequently, we encode the binary color values to drastically reduce qubit usage during the sharing phase and achieve the encryption of a