Determining and ameliorating wireless telecommunication network functionalities that are impaired when using end-to-end encryption

A method comprising:

• sending, to a server of a wireless telecommunication network, a request from a sender user equipment (UE) to communicate with a receiver UE, wherein the request indicates whether a sender UE is capable of using an end-to-end encryption;
• causing the server to determine whether the receiver UE is associated with a functionality provided by a wireless telecommunication network that could be impaired when the end-to-end encryption is used to communicate between the sender UE and the receiver UE, including making a determination whether one or more UEs are associated with the receiver UE, wherein the one or more UEs are configured to receive a copy of a first message when the receiver UE receives the first message, and
• wherein at least one UE among the one or more UEs is not configured to engage in the end-to-end encryption;
• and wherein the server, upon determining that the receiver UE is associated with the functionality could be impaired, performs an action to ameliorate an impairment to the functionality,
• wherein the ameliorating the impairment comprises:
• causing the server to obtain a list of marked receiver UEs whose encryption keys cannot expire;
• causing the server to determine whether the receiver UE is in the list of marked receiver UEs;
• and
• upon determining that the receiver UE is included in the list of marked receiver UEs, causing the server to eschew negotiating a new encryption key associated with the receiver UE for a predetermined amount of time.

A system comprising:

• at least one hardware processor;
• and
• at least one non-transitory memory storing instructions, which, when executed by the at least one hardware processor, cause the system to:
• send a request to a server of a wireless telecommunication network from a sender user equipment (UE) to communicate with a receiver UE, wherein the request indicates whether a sender UE is capable of implementing an end-to-end encryption;
• cause the server to determine whether the receiver UE is associated with a functionality provided by a wireless telecommunication network that could be impaired when the end-to-end encryption is used to communicate between the sender UE and the receiver UE, including making a determination whether one or more UEs are associated with the receiver UE, wherein the one or more UEs are configured to receive a copy of a first message when the receiver UE receives the first message, and wherein at least one UE among the one or more UEs is not configured to engage in the end-to-end encryption;
• and
• wherein the server, upon determining that the receiver UE is associated with the functionality could be impaired, performs an action to ameliorate an impairment to the functionality,
• wherein the instructions to ameliorate the impairment comprising the instructions to:
• cause the server to obtain a list of marked receiver UEs whose encryption keys cannot expire, wherein the marked receiver UEs include a particular receiver UE associated with authorities;
• cause the server to determine whether the receiver UE is in the list of marked receiver UEs;
• and
• upon determining that the receiver UE is included in the list of marked receiver UEs, cause the server to eschew negotiating a new encryption key associated with the receiver UE for a predetermined amount of time.