Research Article

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

Table 3

BAN logic notations and postulates.

Notations and postulates Description

believes the statement is true

sees

once said that or has sent a message containing

has control over

is fresh

and can communicate using the shared key ,
only or a trusted third party know

The formula is combined with the formula

Rule(a): The message-meaning rule

Rule(b): The jurisdiction rule

Rule(c): The nonce-verification rule

Rule(d): The freshness-conjuncatenation rule

,Rule(e): The belief rule