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InfraSec 2002: Infrastructure Security pp 129–144Cite as

A Contemporary Foreword on GSM Security

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This article contains a current outline of the GSM system security, with focus on the air interface protocol. It presents the terminology and describes the GSM security operation, including its principles and features. This document also discusses the effectiveness of GSM authentication and the strength of GSM encryption. It includes therefore the most significant physical and cryptanalytic attacks on GSM security mechanisms, such as the up to date optical fault induction and partitioning attacks. GSM security features retained and enhanced for the 3G Security and further applications in network (Internet) remote access are also contemplated. This article aims primarily at contributing to a progressive research in mobile systems security and at reviewing the security solutions implemented in this area for further applications.

GSM was formerly acronym for Groupe Spéciale Mobile (founded 1982). Now is acronym for Global System for Mobile Communications (http://www.gsmworld.com).

2 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) is a partnership project including: ETSI (Europe), ARIB & TTA (Japan), TTC (Korea) and T1P1 (USA).

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  1. Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London, TW20 0EX, Egham, Surrey, UK

    Paulo S. Pagliusi

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  1. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 53201, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    George Davida

  2. TechTegrity LLC, P.O. Box 2125, 07091, Westfield, NJ, USA

    Yair Frankel

  3. Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Filton Road, Stoke Gifford, BS34 8QZ, Bristol, UK

    Owen Rees

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Pagliusi, P.S. (2002). A Contemporary Foreword on GSM Security. In: Davida, G., Frankel, Y., Rees, O. (eds) Infrastructure Security. InfraSec 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2437. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45831-X_10

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