| 摘要 |
A method of providing authentication of a mobile device in a telecommunications network comprising the steps of: providing a user defined first password to an authentication server in the communications network; generating a set of security parameters by an authentication server and provisioning the security parameters to a mobile device, wherein the security parameters are stored at the mobile device and wherein the security parameters comprises an encryption key; authenticating the mobile device by challenging the integrity of the encryption key stored at the mobile device and verifying a first response generated by the mobile device in response to the challenge, wherein verifying comprises comparing by the network whether the first response matches a second response, wherein the first response is based on the encryption key stored at the mobile device and a second password input by the user, and the second response is generated by the network and is based on the encryption key generated by the authentication server and the user defined first password. |
