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Table 1 Notations used in this paper

From: Smart card based time efficient authentication scheme for global grid computing

S

Server

Ui

User

SID

Identity of server Si

IDi

Identity of user Ui

Bi

Biometric data of Ui

(PWi)

Password of Ui

h(.)

One-way hash function

x

The master secret key

(pk, sk)

Public-private key pair

⊕

The exclusive-OR operation

‖

Message concatenation

R

Random number generated by Ui

nu

Nonce value generated by Ui

ns

Nonce value generated by the server Si