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Mutual entity authentication for LTE

Geir M. Køien

subject

Challenge-Handshake Authentication ProtocolKey-agreement protocolAuthenticationbusiness.industryComputer scienceAuthorizationMutual authenticationEnterprise information security architectureCryptographic protocolComputer securitycomputer.software_genreDistributed System Security ArchitectureGSMAuthentication protocolLightweight Extensible Authentication ProtocolbusinesscomputerAKAComputer network

description

In this paper we outline the Authentication and Key Agreement protocol (EPS-AKA) found in Long-Term Evolution (LTE) systems. This architecture is the 3GPP version of a 4G access security architecture. The LTE security architecture is a mature evolved architecture, with both strengths and weaknesses. In this paper we propose an amendment to the EPS-AKA protocol to make it a full mutual (online) entity authentication protocol. We also analyze the proposal, highlighting both the improvements and the drawbacks of the new AKA protocol.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2011-07-012011 7th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference
https://doi.org/10.1109/iwcmc.2011.5982630