Researchers have put forward many variations of schemes for secret image sharing on grounds of visual cryptography and polynomials. The authors of this paper put forward a novel scheme for sharing multiple secret images with perfect reconstruction and authentication for cheating prevention. The perfect reconstruction of all shared secret images is obtained by applying polynomial-based encryption and decryption, and one-time authentication is done for all shared secret images by stacking the intelligible shares created by using extended visual cryptography. Properties' analysis, experimental results and comparisons are given to exhibit the potency of the scheme. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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