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Advances, Systems and Applications

Table 1 Definitions of symbols in “Construction” section

From: A secure cross-domain authentication scheme based on threshold signature for MEC

Symbol

Definition

n

Number of signature nodes

t

Size of signature threshold

\((\alpha ,\beta ,\mu )\)

Secret values of the head node

\({{d}_{i}}\)

Secret split value generated by the header node for the signature node i

\({{\delta }_{i}}\)

Initial authorization private key of the signature node i

\(({{\gamma }_{i}},{{z}_{i}})\)

Secret values of the signature node i

\({{f}_{i}}(j)\)

Secret split value generated by the signature node i for the signature node j

\({{v}_{i}}\)

Secret shared value of the signature node i

\({{\Gamma }_{i}}\)

Public key of the signature node i

PK

Public key of the subdomain

m

Authentication message

\(\left( {{\eta }_{i}},{{\sigma }_{i}} \right)\)

Signature

\((\eta ,\sigma ,\Gamma )\)

Authentication credential