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Table 2 Commonly used notations

From: Admission control policy and key agreement based on anonymous identity in cloud computing

Common notations

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Uu

utâ„Ž user of the system

RC

Centralized registration center of the infrastructure

IDu

Specific user’s identity

PWu

Specific user’s password

Bu

Biometric identity of specific user

PIDu

User’s pseudo identity

SCu

Smart card issued to each specific user

Sj

jth service provider of the infrastructure

IDj

Identity of service provider

X

Secret key of RC

pkRC

Public key of RC

pkSj

Public key of Sj

S

Secret key of Sj

P

Base point of the elliptic curve Ep(e,f)

H(.)

Function specified for Bio-hash

h(.)

One-way digest function of hashing