HP-UX AAA Server A.08.00.01 Administrator's Guide

Kc). Typically, n=2 or n=3. The HP-UX AAA Server also allows adding a customized
plug-in using the Software Development Kit (SDK) to contact any AuC in the
network, to directly retrieve the ‘n’ triplets.
After calculating the triplets, the HP-UX AAA Server responds with an EAP request
challenge containing each of the random numbers (RAND), and their respective
message authentication codes (AT_MAC).
7. The supplicant first verifies the message authentication code received from the
HP-UX AAA Server for each of the RAND. After successfully validating the message
authentication code for the received SRES, it generates the encryption key (Kc)
used for deriving keying material and the signed response (SRES) values for each
of the RAND value it received.
The supplicant and the HP-UX AAA Server generate multiple RAND, to generate
multiple encryption key (Kc) to derive stronger keying material.
Subsequently, it sends only the message authentication code for each of the SRES
values in the EAP request challenge message.
8. The HP-UX AAA Server on receiving the challenge compares the received message
authentication code by calculating its own message authentication code for the
SRES values it already has. After the validation is successful, the HP-UX AAA
Server derives the keying material for session encryption and sends it with an
Access-Accept message to the access point. The Access-Accept message also
has an encapsulated EAP Success message.
9. The access point forwards the EAP Success message to the supplicant, and keeps
the keying material for encrypting the subscriber’s session. The supplicant also
derives the same encryption key and therefore, the access point does not forward
to the supplicant.
10. With the common session key, the network traffic between the access point and
the supplicant can now be encrypted and the supplicant can securely access the
network.
EAP-SIM includes an optional identity privacy support, wherein the supplicant can
send a temporary (pseudonym) identity instead of using the clear text permanent
identity (IMSI) to prevent eavesdroppers. In such cases, the HP-UX AAA Server has
to do a lookup of the real user name (permanent identity) on receiving the pseudonym
identity. The mapping of the permanent identity with the pseudonym and vice-versa
can be done using algorithms built inside the HP-UX AAA Server or using an external
storage like an SQL-compliant database with the mapping information.
EAP-SIM also includes an optional fast re-authentication support, wherein the
previously generated master session key during full authentication process will be
used to generate a fresh master session key. Therefore, a new set of triplets is not
required. A supplicant requesting the fast re-authentication will send the fast
re-authentication identity received during the previous full authentication. The HP-UX
AAA Server internally maps the fast re-authentication identity to the permanent identity
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