1. A method for authenticating and identifying an object, the method comprising: a) applying an indicium on the object, wherein the indicium is a combination of an identification code and a label containing fluorophores in a random pattern; b) capturing at least one image of the indicium using an image capturing device, wherein the image capturing device has an illumination source, wherein the illumination source is activated, before or during the capture of the image, to excite the fluorophores of the indicium and the image captured has the identification code along with the emitted fluorescence pattern formed by the excited fluorophores in the label; c) determining the authenticity of the indicium by correlating the image captured with data available in a server database, wherein the server database has the images of all the emitted fluorescence patterns indexed using the identification code.