Implementing a security association during the attachment of a terminal to an access network

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9532218-B2
Application number	US-201314412494-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 20, 2013
Priority date	Jul 2, 2012
Publication date	Dec 27, 2016
Grant date	Dec 27, 2016

Abstract

A method is provided for implementing a security association for a terminal being attached to an access network. The method includes the following steps, carried out by an authentication server of the access network, after receiving a request coming from the terminal for attachment to the network: receiving a first message containing at least one security association parameter from a bootstrapping server function; authenticating the terminal by using at least one first authentication parameter provided by a home subscriber server of the terminal; and sending a security association message containing the at least one security association parameter to the authenticated terminal.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method of setting up a security association for a terminal attaching to an access network, wherein the method comprises the following acts, executed by an authentication server of the access network, subsequent to reception of a request for attachment to the network coming from the terminal:
reception, from a bootstrapping function server, of a first message containing at least one security association parameter;
authentication of the terminal by u…

Assignees

• Orange

Inventors

• Bournelle Julien
• Morand Lionel

Classifications

• H04W84/12

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L63/162

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W12/06 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W12/0431

  Electricity · mapped topic