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On the Impact of GSM Encryption and Man-in-the-Middle Attacks on the Security of Interoperating GSM/UMTS Networks

PublisherDarmstadt University of Technology
Format118.8KB PDFDate added16 Nov 2005
Topics Network Security, GSM, Mobile - Wireless Communications
Downloads208

GSM suffers from various security weaknesses. Furthermore, it is well-known that it is possible to mount a man-in-the-middle attack in GSM during authentication which allows an attacker to make a victim mobile station authenticate itself to a fake base station which in turn forwards the authentication traffic to the real network, thus impersonating the victim mobile station to a real network and vice versa. This paper discusses the impact of GSM encryption attacks, that recover the encryption key, and the man-in-the-middle attack on the security of networks, which employ UMTS and GSM base stations simultaneously.

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