Research Article

A General Architecture for Multiserver Authentication Key Agreement with Provable Security

Table 3

Comparative summary: communication costs.

Protocolscomputation cost

Sood et al. [28]4 messages (2240 bits)
Lee et al. [27]3 messages (1120 bits)
Li et al. [29]4 messages (2720 bits)
proposed protocol5 messages (2080 bits)