Method for decrypting an encrypted packet within a wireless communication device, and corresponding device
AssigneeST-Ericsson SA
InventorsHervé Sibert, Sylviane Roullier
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Abstract
Method for decrypting, within a wireless communication device, a sequence of encrypted packets received via a wireless communication channel between the communication device and a cell assigned to this device, comprising for each packet the following steps: —the computation of an encrypting sequence corresponding to the packet (21); and —the decrypting of the packet with the aid of the said encrypting sequence (22). In this method, the encrypting sequences are computed before the reception of the packets while the reception quality is above a threshold (20, TH) and an indication of change of cell is not received (24).
Claims7
Method for decrypting, within a wireless communication device, a sequence of encrypted packets received via a wireless communication channel between the communication device and a cell assigned to this device, comprising for each packet the following steps:
- the computation of an encrypting sequence corresponding to the packet;
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- the decrypting of the packet with the aid of the said encrypting sequence;
- wherein the encrypting sequences are computed before the reception of the packets while the reception quality is above a threshold and an indication of change of cell is not received, and
- wherein the encrypting sequences are not computed before the reception of the packets while the reception quality is not above the threshold and the indication of change of cell is not received.
Wireless communication device comprising reception means capable of receiving a sequence of encrypted packets and processing means comprising computing means capable of computing an encrypting sequence for each packet before it is received, decrypting means capable of decrypting each packet with the corresponding encrypting sequence, wherein the reception means are capable of receiving an indication of change of cell and wherein the processing means also comprise determination means capable of determining an item of information relating to the reception quality of the packets and control means capable, for each packet, of activating the computing means prior to the reception of the packet while the reception quality is higher than a threshold and an indication of change of cell is not received, and not activating the computing means prior to the reception of the packet while the reception quality is not higher than the threshold and the indication of change of cell is not received.
A method for reducing time delays associated with decryption processing of encrypted packeted data received by a wireless communication device in a wireless communication network, the method comprising:
- measuring reception quality between the wireless communication device and the wireless communication network;
- receiving encrypted packeted data in the wireless communication device;
- computing a decrypting sequence in the wireless communication device;
- wherein the step of computing a decrypting sequence is performed prior to the step of receiving encrypted packeted data if measured reception quality is above a threshold, and
- wherein the step computing a decrypting sequence is not performed prior to the step of receiving encrypted packeted data if the measured reception quality is not above the threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.