Research Article

Trusted Authority Assisted Three-Factor Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for the Implantable Medical System

Table 1

Notations.

NotationsDescription

user and his/her mobile device
controller node
implantable medical device
Trusted authority
’s identity, password and biometric information
Identities of and controller node
Pseudo identities of and , registration timestamp of
1024-bit secret number of
Current timestamp
Maximum transmission delay associated with a message
Error tolerance threshold used in fuzzy extractor
Elliptic curve point multiplication,
Collision-resistant cryptographic hash function
Concatenation operation
Bitwise XOR operation