Authenticity verification of authentication messages
AssigneesKoninklijke KPN N.V., Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO
InventorsFrank Muller, Frank Fransen
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Abstract
At least a method for verifying the authenticity of one or more authentication messages in an authentication procedure between a network and a mobile device is described wherein the method comprises: sending an authentication request through a first radio access node to a said mobile device, said radio access node being associated with first location information; said mobile device generating second location information associated with the location of said mobile device; and, verifying the authenticity of the origin of said authentication request by checking if said second location information comprises said first location information.
Claims15
Method for verifying an authenticity of one or more authentication messages in an authentication procedure between a network and a mobile device, the method comprising:
- sending an authentication request through a first radio access node to a said mobile device, said radio access node being associated with first location information;
- said mobile device generating second location information comprising a list of location information associated with the location of said mobile device;
- transmitting first location information from the first radio access node to the mobile device or the second location information from the mobile device to the first radio access node;
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- verifying the authenticity of the origin of said authentication request by checking if said first location information is comprised in the list constituted by the second location information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.