Privacy through Pseudonymity in Mobile Telephony Systems
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Date: 22 Feb 2014
Document Type: Briefing Papers
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Associated Event: NDSS Symposium 2014
Abstract:
We show that real implementations of the pseudonym changing mechanism do not achieve the intended privacy goals and that it is possible to exploit the TMSI reallocation procedure to track mobile telephony users. We propose countermeasures to tackle the exposed vulnerabilities and formally prove a sufficient condition to provide unlinkability.