WIRELESS NETWORK SERVICE ACCESS CONTROL WITH SUBSCRIBER IDENTITY PROTECTION

    公开(公告)号:US20210058774A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-25

    申请号:US17052163

    申请日:2018-05-02

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A device level lock policy, which applies to all smart secure platform (SSP) applications of a mobile device, is used to determine whether a particular SSP application can be activated. A tamper resistant hardware secure element (SE) includes a primary platform with a low level operating system (OS) and one or more SSP applications within one or more secondary platform bundles that include secondary platforms with high level OSs specific to the secondary platform bundles. The low level OS enforces the device level lock policy for all secondary platform bundles by verifying whether a lock policy for the SSP application is consistent with the device level lock policy. When verification succeeds, activation is allowed, and when verification fails, activation is disallowed. Subscription identifiers are not provided in unencrypted form to processing circuitry of the mobile device external to the tamper resistant hardware SE to provide subscriber identity privacy protection.

    SUBSCRIBER IDENTITY PRIVACY PROTECTION AND NETWORK KEY MANAGEMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20210021993A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-21

    申请号:US17042859

    申请日:2018-03-27

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Techniques to protect subscriber identity in messages communicated between a user equipment (UE) and a cellular wireless network entity by using multiple ephemeral asymmetric keys are disclosed. The UE determines multiple ephemeral UE public and secret key pairs, while the cellular wireless network entity provides a network public key to the UE. The network public key may be updated over time. Multiple encryption keys based on the multiple ephemeral UE secret keys and the public network key are derived and used to encrypt a subscription permanent identifier (SUPI) to generate multiple subscription concealed identifiers (SUCIs). Each SUCI is used only once for messages communicated to a cellular wireless network and discarded after use. New SUCI are generated when the network public key is updated.

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