11 February 2018

Full form of AUC

What is the full form of AUC?


Answer :

  • Authentication Center 

What does AUC mean?


AUC is a protected database that can store a copy of the secret key stored in each subscriber SIM card that is used for authentication and encryption over the radio channel.

The authentication center maintains authentication keys and algorithms. It provides security triplets like RAND, SRES, and Kc to the VLR.

The authentication center handles authentication and encryption keys for each subscriber in the HLR full form is Home Location Register and VLR full form is Visitor Location Register.