System method and apparatus for authenticating an encrypted sign

Cryptography – Particular algorithmic function encoding – Nbs/des algorithm

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380 4, 380 44, 380 45, 380 46, H04L 900, H03K 384

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ABSTRACT:
A cryptographic communications system includes a method and apparatus for exchanging messages between a user terminal, containing a secret key, and an operations center wherein each party authenticates signals received from the other party before any other information is exchanged. An initial identification message from the user terminal to the operations center contains an encrypted value of current time. The operations center checks the received message against local time to verify real time concurrent operation of the user terminal. Subsequently, the operations center and the user terminal mutually exchange encrypted challenge blocks, and each provide respective encrypted responses to the encrypted challenge blocks. The challenge and response exchanges demonstrate that each knows the secret key stored in the user terminal before other information, such as downloaded credit or uploaded data usage, is exchanged. In particular, the challenge and response messages exchange a first random number generated in the user terminal and a second random number generated in the operations center, which are variables used in conjunction with the user secret key to generate a new session key for encrypting the remainder of the messages exchanging data in the communication session.

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