Abstract
This study presents enhancing images authentication by securing watermarking hidden data via shares generated from counting-based secret sharing. The trustfulness of shares utilised secret-sharing as an applicable privacy creation tool for the authentication of real-life complex platforms. This research adjusts embedding the watermarking data over the images by innovative redistribution of shares to be embedded spread over all the images. The anticipated watermarking technique guaranteed to scatter the share bits implanting at different least significant bits of image pixels as boosting up the trust overall authentication practicality. The paper experimentation performance analysis shows that this improved image watermarking authentication (capacity) is averagely better by 33%-67% than other related exclusive-OR oriented and octagon approaches. Interestingly, these measurement improvements did not degrade the robustness and security of the system, inspiring our research for opening novel track of related future counting-based secret-sharing authentication progresses to come.