Research Article

An Enhanced RFID-Based Authentication Protocol using PUF for Vehicular Cloud Computing

Table 4

Notations along with their descriptions.

SymbolDescription

tag, reader, and cloud server
Unique identities of and
Password of
Long-term private secret key of the
Operations of bitwise concatenation and bitwise XOR
Session key established between and
Physically unclonable function
Cryptographic collision-resistant one-way hash function
Random numbers
Timestamps used at transmission
Maximum threshold transmission delay allowed
Validation check, if expression matches or not
An adversary