Patent ID: 7907730

Claim:
A controller in a network communicating with a mobile station over the air, comprising: a radio control unit configured to receive two or more possible encipherment procedures from the mobile station and select one encipherment procedure from the received two or more possible encipherment procedures of the mobile station for future communication with the mobile station, wherein the radio control unit notifies the mobile station of the selected encipherment procedure; and a user information control unit configured to receive from the mobile station two or more possible enciphering key generation procedures of the mobile station, select one enciphering key generation procedure from the received two or more possible enciphering key generation procedures of the mobile station and notify the mobile station of the selected enciphering key generation procedure, wherein the user information control unit receives an enciphering key generated by the mobile station in response to the notification of the selected one enciphering key generation procedure from the network and verifies the received enciphering key.