Patent ID: 9698978
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. An authentication and key management method for a network equipment, comprising: generating, by the network equipment, a Network Key (NK); performing, by the network equipment, authentication protocol interaction with an opposite communication equipment, and calculating a Basic Session Key (BSK) according to parameters for the authentication protocol interaction and the NK; calculating, by the network equipment, link Encryption Keys (EKs) used respectively for two or more Media Access Control (MAC) and Physical (PHY) layers corresponding to two or more access technologies according to the BSK, and providing the EKs for respective MAC and PHY layer function modules; and performing, by the MAC and PHY layer function modules, encryption and decryption protection on data communicated between the network equipment and the opposite communication equipment with the provided EKs.