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. 2015 Aug 11;10(8):e0131368. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131368

Table 1. Descriptions of various notations.

Notations Description
U i The patient (User)
ID i The identity of U i
PW i The password of U i
S The medical server of integrated EPR information system
K The secret key of S
c i The counter maintained in S’s database against the user U i
H(⋅) The secure and collision-resistance one-way hash function
p, q Two large prime numbers
n The publicly known modulus such that n = pq
bRZn* The number b randomly chosen from Zn*
The bitwise XOR operator
The concatenation operator
SK The session key agreed between U i and S
𝓐 The active/passive adversary