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Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2011

Filed:

Aug. 18, 2004
Applicants:

Tao Haukka, Oulu, FI;

Aki Niemi, Helsinki, FI;

Inventors:

Tao Haukka, Oulu, FI;

Aki Niemi, Helsinki, FI;

Assignee:

Nokia Corporation, Espoo, FI;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Disclosed is a method and system to discourage a MITM attacker in a data communications system that includes client and a server. The method includes, in a Digest Authentication and Key Agreement (AKA) challenge sent to the client from the server, setting an 'algorithm' field to 'algorithm='AKAv1-HMAC-MD5'' for directing the client to use the HMAC-MD5 keyed hash function when producing Digest credentials; and using at least one of an AKA Integrity Key (IK) or an AKA Cipher Key (CK) in the keyed hash function.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Haukka, Tao. (2011). Method of protecting digest authentication and key agreement (aka) against man-in-the-middle (mitm) attack (U.S. Patent No. 7908484). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/7908484

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