A Proposed Lower Computational Complexity Secret Key Mirroring System on GSM

Abstract

Global system for mobile communication is a wireless radio technology used mostly on network communication. It is designed to overcome the challenges of analog communication. GSM evolved from generation 1G to 4G LTE and uses protocols to protect transmissions, which have shown to be susceptible to attacks. This fact has been proven based on several attacks ranging from narrow pipe attack, guess, and determine attacks, side channel attacks, time memory tradeoff attacks and correlation attacks which have high computational complexities. The proposed system called GSM Traffic Monitoring System (GTMS) attempts to proffer a lower computational complexity attack. It uses a key retrieval and passive attack module to handle the mirroring of the secret key authentication procedure given a chosen random challenge on a SIM card through the injection of a malware. This research aims at drawing the attention of network providers- SIM configuration; an area that requires protection from attackers.