Research Article

An Improved Authentication Scheme for Digital Rights Management System

Table 1

Symbol guide.

SymbolsExplanations

, Mobile user, license server
, Identities of ,
, Password and biometric of
, Secret keys ,
, Hash and biohash functions
, Random nonces
Unique random nonce for each user
, Current timestamps
Secret key of digital content
Master key of license server
Allowed transmission delay
||, Concatenation and XOR operations