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Introduction

This document describes detailed cryptographic procedures for wireless system applications. These procedures are used to perform the security services of mutual authentication between mobile stations and base stations, subscriber message encryption, and key agreement within wireless equipment. This document contains both textual descriptions and reference implementations for the procedures. The textual descriptions are provided as an aid to the reader. In the event of a conflict between the text description and the reference code, it is recommended that implementations agree with the reference code.