Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Privacy key and message authentication code
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Application No.: US16633908Application Date: 2018-07-17
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Publication No.: US11330433B2Publication Date: 2022-05-10
- Inventor: Vesa Torvinen , Noamen Ben Henda , David Castellanos Zamora , Prajwol Kumar Nakarmi , Pasi Saarinen , Monica Wifvesson
- 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: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.
- International Application: PCT/EP2018/069433 WO 20180717
- International Announcement: WO2019/020440 WO 20190131
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; H04W12/06 ; H04W12/02 ; H04W12/04 ; H04L9/08 ; H04L9/32 ; H04W12/72 ; H04W12/0433 ; H04W12/033 ; H04L9/30 ; H04W8/18 ; H04W60/00 ; H04W12/10 ; H04W12/75

Abstract:
A method performed by an authentication server for provisioning a user equipment (1), UE. The method comprises: obtaining a message authentication code, MAC, based on a provisioning key specific to the UE to the UE and a privacy key of a home network (3) of the UE, wherein the provisioning key is a shared secret between the authentication server (14) and the UE and the privacy key comprises a public key of the home network; and transmitting the privacy key and the MAC to the UE. Methods performed by a de-concealing server and the UE, respectively are also disclosed as well as authentication servers, de-concealing servers and UEs. A computer program and a memory circuitry (13) are also disclosed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210153010A1 PRIVACY KEY AND MESSAGE AUTHENTICATION CODE Public/Granted day:2021-05-20
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