Service provision authentication protocol

Details Service provision authentication protocol Service provision authentication protocol

1991-09-13

1992-10-06

Cangialosi, Salvatore

Cryptography

Key management

Having particular key generator

380 21, 380 23, H04L 900

Patent

active

051539195

ABSTRACT:
A protocol for authenticating a cellular telephone to a service provider for the purpose of preventing the piracy of cellular services. A service provider assigns a unique "secret", along with other information such as a telephone number, to each cellular telephone when the telephone service is established with the service provider. Each base station of a service provider continuously broadcasts a periodically changing random number to all of the cellular telephones within the base station's jurisdiction. When a cellular telephone first enters the jurisdiction of a base station, it registers itself with the base station by concatenating a secret password and the most recently broadcast random number, along with other information, and passing the concatenated information to a hash function. The cellular telephone then sends the output of the hash function, along with other identifying information to the service provider. The service provider, upon learning of the cellular telephone's identity, feeds the secret assigned to that cellular telephone and the random number, along with other information, into the same hash function. When the result of the hashing performed by the service provider matches that provided by the cellular telephone, authentication for that cellular telephone is complete. Thereupon, the provider sends the cell a shared secret data field which is known to the mobile unit, and subsequent authentication processes are carried out between the mobile unit and the cell itself.

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