Title
Efficient QR code authentication mechanism based on Sudoku.
Abstract
QR code is an important means for delivering information which has been widely used in our daily life. As an ISO international standard, the QR code encoding and decoding process are disclosed publicly, thus it is easy to decode a QR code then forge a new QR code with the same QR code public message. It can lead to the problems of information forgery and ease the spreading of fake news. To overcome this weakness, we propose a simple and efficient QR code authentication mechanism to embed the authentication information in the padding region of QR code based on the characteristics of Sudoku and Reed-Solomon code. Different from the previous scheme, the proposed scheme embeds the authentication information without consuming the QR code error correction capacity and is able to achieve a higher embedding capacity. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme has high security, low power consumption and is robust to common QR code attacks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s11042-019-07795-8
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
QR code, Authentication, Sudoku, Reed-Solomon code
Authentication,Embedding,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Reed–Solomon error correction,Error detection and correction,Artificial intelligence,Fake news,Decoding methods,Padding,Computer engineering,Encoding (memory)
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
78
18
1380-7501
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Peng-Cheng Huang193.24
Yung-Hui Li25710.06
Chin Chen Chang37849725.95
Yanjun Liu455.22