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Table 2 Common symbols

From: An ECC-based mutual data access control protocol for next-generation public cloud

Symbol

Description

Symbol

Description

u

A user of the system

PCS

Public Cloud Server

\(ID_{u}\)

Identity of user

\(F_q\)

The Prime finite fields

E/(Fq)

Elliptic curve over \(F_q\)

\(Z_{q}^{*}\)

Additive group of order q

\(ID_{PCS}\)

Identity of public cloud server

\(SK_u, SK_{PCS}\)

Session key

P

Elliptic Curve Point

G

Additive ECC group

g

The base point of order G

h(.)

One-way hash function

\(\bigoplus\)

XOR operator

\(\parallel\)

Concatenation Function

\(PW_u\)

User Password

T

Timestamp