APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING EAP-AKA AUTHENTICATION IN THE NON-USIM TERMINAL

摘要

Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for processing authentication using Extensible Authentication Protocol- Authentication and Key Agreement (EAP-AKA) in a non-Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM) terminal without a USIM card. According to the present invention, although the USIM card used for user authentication function is absent, the secret value that used to be stored in the USIM card for user authentication is directly stored in the non-USIM terminal. Therefore, both a user password and a secret value are applied for EAP-AKA authentication of the terminal and the user and user authentication problems caused by lack of the USIM card can be overcome.