Vojvoda, Milan A survey of security mechanisms in mobile communication systems. (English) Zbl 1050.94533 Tatra Mt. Math. Publ. 25, 109-125 (2002). This is a comprehensive overview of GSM and UMTS security mechanisms addressed to all who want to be quickly informed about the state of the art in the topics. The reader finds a description of the GSM network and its three basic security mechanisms: anonymity, authentication and confidentiality. The author also presents a list of known attacks on the A5 stream cipher. Then he describes the UMTS security mechanisms including a brief description of KASUMI cipher analysis. Finally, there is a brief description of other mobile communications systems. Reviewer: Otokar Grošek (Bratislava ) MSC: 94A60 Cryptography 90B18 Communication networks in operations research 94A62 Authentication, digital signatures and secret sharing 68M10 Network design and communication in computer systems Keywords:mobile communications security; GSM; UMTS Software:KASUMI PDF BibTeX XML Cite \textit{M. Vojvoda}, Tatra Mt. Math. Publ. 25, 109--125 (2002; Zbl 1050.94533)