Pairing-free secure-channel establishment in mobile networks with fine-grained lawful interception

ePrint Report: Pairing-free secure-channel establishment in mobile networks with fine-grained lawful interception

Xavier Bultel, Cristina Onete

Modern-day mobile communications allow users to connect from any place, at any time. However, this ubiquitous access comes at the expense of their privacy. Currently, the operators providing mobile service to users learn call-and SMS-metadata, and even the contents of those exchanges. A main reason behind this is the Lawful-Interception (LI) requirement, by which serving networks must provide this (meta-)data to authorities, given a …

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