Secret Image-Sharing Scheme Based on Multinode Authentication in the Internet of Things

Internet of things (IoT) has been developed and applied rapidly because of its huge commercial value in recent years. However, security problem has become a key factor restricting the development of IoT. The nodes of IoT are easy to be impersonated or replaced when attacked, which leads to the mistake of the uploaded data, the abnormal use of the application, and so on. Identifying the authenticity of the data submitted by the nodes is the top priority. We propose a scheme to verify the authenticity of multinode data. In this scheme, the authenticity of node data is checked through visual secret recovery and XOR operation together. The least significant bit (lsb) operation converts data from nodes into a bit, which improves the efficiency of data verification and reduces the risk of data leakage. This scheme achieves the purpose of verifying the data provided by the node, which avoids malicious attacks from illegal nodes. By analyzing the experiment result and comparing with other works, our scheme has the advantages of high verification efficiency, lightweight storage of nodes, and security verification.