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There are a lot of subscribers of GSM across the world. GSM is one of the major achievements in modern cellular telephony. The authentication protocol for GSM has some drawbacks [1,2]. We show why drawbacks occur and propose an improvement on privacy and authentication in GSM not only to improve drawbacks but also to achieve the goals as follows: mutual authentication, reduction of bandwidth consumption between VLR and HLR, reduction of storage space of VLR database, reduction of authentication data flows, security and efficiency. In particular, we show a possible attack to threat MS’s location privacy. The merit of the proposed protocol is that it is based on the existing security algorithm A3, A5 and A8.
Part of this research was supported by the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation, R.O.K., under contract no. R05-2003-000-12083-0.
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Choi, Y.J., Kim, S.J. (2005). An Improvement on Privacy and Authentication in GSM. In: Lim, C.H., Yung, M. (eds) Information Security Applications. WISA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3325. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31815-6_2
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