Security of audio secret sharing scheme encrypting audio secrets with bounded shares

Secret sharing is a method of encrypting a secret into multiple pieces called shares so that only qualified sets of shares can be employed to reconstruct the secret. Audio secret sharing (ASS) is an example of secret sharing whose decryption can be performed by human ears. This paper examines the security of an audio secret sharing scheme encrypting audio secrets with bounded shares, and optimizes the security with respect to the probability distribution used in its encryption.

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