Research Article

A Provably Secure Biometrics-Based Authentication Scheme for Multiserver Environment

Table 1

Notations.

SymbolsDescription

user
Server
RCRegistration center
Malicious adversary
xMaster key of RC
, , Identity, password and biometric of
Identity of
A generator of elliptic curve group
Symmetric encryption/decryption algorithm with key
Session key between and
The string concatenation operation
The bitwise XOR operation
Hash function
Bio-hash function, it maps the biometric and a tokenised random number to a random binary string