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AssigneeNokia Corporation
InventorVlad Alexandru Stirbu
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A handshake protocol, for encapsulation by the so-called TLS Record Protocol, for use by a client (11) and a server (12) in authenticating each other. The handshake protocol is based on the TLS Handshake Protocol, but replaces the PKI trust infrastructure of that protocol with the IMS AKA trust infrastructure, which is based on a private key stored on a so-called smart card (11a) in the client terminal (11), and also stored (usually) in a Home Subscriber Server (14) serving as a trusted third party (but instead sometimes in the server (12) being authenticated), the third party providing information to the server (12) sufficient for the server (12) to authenticate the client (11) and also sufficient for the server (12) to provide to the client (11) information sufficient for the client (11) to authenticate the server (12).
A method by which a client (11), having a secret key (K), authenticates a server (12), and vice versa, so as to be able to communicate with each other via a connection established between the client (11) and the server (12), the method serving as a handshake protocol (TLS Handshake Protocol) encapsulated by another protocol (TLS Record Protocol) providing connection security, the method characterized by:
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