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- Patent Title: Secure communications using network access identity
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Application No.: US16623534Application Date: 2017-07-03
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Publication No.: US11316670B2Publication Date: 2022-04-26
- Inventor: Per Stahl , Patrik Ekdahl , Petri Mikael Johansson , Bernard Smeets
- Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- Agency: Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.
- International Application: PCT/EP2017/066465 WO 20170703
- International Announcement: WO2019/007476 WO 20190110
- Main IPC: H04L9/08
- IPC: H04L9/08 ; H04L9/32 ; H04W12/06 ; H04W12/0431 ; H04L29/06

Abstract:
There is provided mechanisms for enabling secure communication between a first communications device and a second communications device. A method is performed by the first communications device. The method comprises performing a network attachment procedure with an authentication server. The method comprises establishing, during the network attachment procedure, a shared secret between the first communications device and the authentication server. The shared secret is established by running an authentication and key agreement protocol as part of the network attachment procedure with a network access identity of the first communications device as input. The method comprises deriving an application level shared key for the first communications device from the shared secret. The shared key is to be used for secure communication between the first communications device and the second communications device.
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