Secure bootstrapping for wireless communications
CA 2597475 C · Owner: Rose, Gregory Gordon · Inventors: Semple, James; Nasielski, John Wallace; Rose, Gregory Gordon
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A mutual authentication method is provided for securely agreeing applicationsecurity keys with mobile terminals supporting legacy Subscriber Identity Modules (e.g. GSM SIM and CDMA2000 R-UIM which do not support 3G AKA , mechanisms). A challenge-response key exchange is implemented between a bootstrapping server function (BSF) and mobile terminal (MT). The BSF generates an authentication challenge and sends it to the MT under a serverauthenticated public key mechanism. The MT receives the challenge and determines whether it originates from the BSF based on a bootstrapping server certificate. The MT formulates a response to the authentication challenge based on keys derived from the …
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- Filed February 3, 2006 and granted September 18, 2012. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 3, 2026.
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