UMTS Security: Entity Authentication
Entity authentication is the procedure of mutual authentication of UE or USIM and the network. In this tutorial following topics are discussed:
- What is Entity Authentication?
- Authentication Vectors Generation
- Authentication Procedure
- Message sequence from UE point of view
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UMTS Security: User Identity Confidentiality (IMSI, TMSI & P-TMSI)
The security architecture in UMTS is divided into four main parts:
- User identity confidentiality
- Entity authentication
- Data integrity
- Ciphering or confidentiality
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