Generic Authentication Architecture
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Generic Authentication Architecture (GAA) is a standard made by 3GPP
3GPP
The 3rd Generation Partnership Project is a collaboration between groups of telecommunications associations, known as the Organizational Partners...

 defined in TR 33.919. Taken from the document:



"This Technical Report aims to give an overview of the different mechanisms that mobile applications can rely upon for authentication between server and client (i.e. the UE). Additionally it provides guidelines related to the use of GAA and to the choice of authentication mechanism in a given situation and for a given application".



Related standards are Generic Bootstrapping Architecture
Generic Bootstrapping Architecture
-Introduction:In mobile phones, Generic Bootstrapping Architecture is one technology enabling the authentication of a user. This authentication is possible if the user owns a valid identity on an HLR Home Location Register or a Home Subscriber Server...

(GBA) and Support for Subscriber Certificates (SSC).
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