Research Article

pKAS: A Secure Password-Based Key Agreement Scheme for the Edge Cloud

Table 1

Description of the symbols used.

SymbolDescription

The trust authority
The identity of user
A big prime
Point set of an elliptic curve: mod
A middle large integer
The limited time interval
The base point of the elliptic curve
A finite cycle additive group over the elliptic curve
One-way hash function
The secret key of user
, the public key of user