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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 29, 2008
Romain Rollet, Rennes, FR;
Romain Rollet, Rennes, FR;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method of authenticating a user in a communication system comprising a user terminal and an authentication server which is capable of storing two types of nonce values, namely dedicated nonce values unique in the system and common nonce values shared between users in the system. In the method the authentication server receives () from the user terminal an access request. Then the authentication server uses a predefined criterion for determining the type of a first nonce value to be sent to the user terminal as a response to the access request. In case the predefined criterion is fulfilled, then a dedicated nonce value is sent, otherwise a common nonce value is sent (). Then the authentication server receives () from the user terminal a response comprising a second nonce value and a response code to the first nonce value. The authentication server then determines whether the response code is correct and whether the second nonce value corresponds to the first nonce value.