Research Article

A Lightweight and Secure Anonymous User Authentication Protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks

Table 2

The notations and rules of the BAN logic.

NotationsDescription

P, QA principal
P ā— XP sees X
P said X, X was send by P
P has jurisdiction over X
k is Pā€™s public key
k is only known to P and Q.
#(X)X is fresh
<X>kFormulae X is combined with the formulae k
{X}kX is encrypted by the key k
P has faith in the truth of X
Rule 1: message meaning rule or
Rule 2: nonce verification rule
Rule 3: jurisdiction rule
Rule 4: decomposition rule