Research Article

A Secure Three-Factor Multiserver Authentication Protocol against the Honest-But-Curious Servers

Table 2

Notations in the new protocol.

th user and th server

the registration centre

’s identity, dynamic identity and ’s identity

’s smart card, password and biometrics

valid biometric characteristic extracted from

master secret key between server and registration centre

master secret key between user and registration centre

hash function, XOR operation and concatenating operation

pre-shared key between and registration centre

pre-shared key between and registration centre