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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2023
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Guangdong, CN;
HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a key management method and a communication apparatus, and relate to the field of communication technologies, to securely transmit multicast service data, and prevent an unauthorized terminal device from obtaining the multicast service data. The method includes: A terminal device obtains a target key, where the target key includes at least one of a target multimedia broadcast/multicast service service key (MSK), a first sub-key corresponding to the target MSK, or a second sub-key corresponding to the target MSK, the first sub-key is for confidentiality protection calculation, and the second sub-key is for integrity protection calculation. The terminal device receives target data, on which security protection is performed, from a multicast user-plane processing network element. Then, the terminal device processes the target data using the target key.