An authentication scheme that uses rehashing and secret sharing methods to verify the reality of a color image's content is proposed in this paper. First, the proposed scheme uses Shamir's secret sharing method to share image features. Second, the proposed scheme innovatively utilizes the rehashing method to overcome easy collisions of the random numbers to enhance the effectiveness against attacks. Third, the proposed method utilizes Portable Network Graphics images to hide authentication

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... ges. Using the rehashing method, the collisions take up little in address space, making the process suitable for processing authentication messages. The experimental results indicated that the proposed scheme had very low false acceptance and rejection ratios and verified that the rehashing method can be used in image authentication applications.