Research Article

Secure and Efficient User Authentication Scheme Based on Password and Smart Card for Multiserver Environment

Table 3

Comparisons of computation efficiency with related works.

Computation partyLi et al. [47]Pippal et al. [40]Yeh [15] Truong et al. [16]Ours

User side
Server side
Total

Note.   = the running time of one hash operation. = the running time of one XOR operation. = the running time of one point multiplication over elliptic curves group. = the running time of one point addition over elliptic curves group. = the running time of one modular exponentiation.