CIRCUIT DESIGN TO

IMPROVE SECURITY OF
TELECOMMUNICATION
DEVICES

Presented By:
S.Shivani
15251A1718
 CONTENTS
 Introduction of TETRA
 System Model
 Mathematical & Probabilistic
 Circuit Design
 Advantages
 Conclusions
 References
 Introduction of TETRA
 TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio) is a
digital standard which is developed by
European telecommunication
standardization institute.

 It is planned for the professional mobile

radio market and consists of private mobile
radio(PMR) system for some organization
such as military, public safety.
 On the other hand TETRA infrastructure and
equipment are quite expensive because of
this most of the organization prefer
reconfigurable equipment to save money.

 Over usage of equipment increases the

probability of damage to the modules.

 If the encryption of the module is somehow

damaged then there is no assurance that
encryption will be done correctly.
 System Module
 TETRA handsets, similar to most other
modern voice or data communication
system, use analog to digital converter
circuit after the microphone.

 The digitized message before encryption

is called plaintext.
 If the encryption module is damaged such
that its delay changes while no encryption
is performed then the comparison of the
two streams will fail.

 Hence, we need another solution such that

it enables one to compare two identical
streams that one of them is possibly
delayed.

 This can be done by use of a circuit which

we call a synchronization circuit.
 Mathematical and Probabilistic

 Delay of encryption circuit is limited to a

number between 0 to 63 bits.

 We also assume a comparison only on the

first 64 bits of the two streams.

 The clear message and output message of

encryption circuit is enough the choice of 63
and 64 bits is arbitrary and the two numbers
are not related to each other.
 Probability of X bits, of n bits in one bit-
stream being correspondingly(i.e.
identical bit positions in the streams).
 Circuit Design
 Synchronization and comparison module is
designed using logic circuits and neutral
networks.

 We design a logic circuit to check

encryption by comparing the first 64 bits of
encryption module output to first 64 bits of
ADC module output.
 This circuit works as follow:
1) Assumption: Encryption circuit delay is between 0 to
63 bits.

2) Shift register 1: saving 64 bits of ADC module

output.

3) Counter 128: to stop shift register 1 after 65 clock

pulses.

4) Shift register 2: to synchronize delayed bits(0-63) to

bits of shift register 1 output.

5) XOR and OR: comparing bits of two shift register

outputs.
6. Latch box: to latch and maintain Yequal to 0, if it ever
becomes 0.

7. And 2, 5: for LED that is turned on only after verifying

the encryption.

8. AND 3: To validate the comparison after counter has

counted output 65.

9. AND 4: To suppress the output until confirming the

encryption is performed.

10. AND 6: to stop shift register 2 after realizing not

encrypted message.
Advantages
 Conclusions
 TETRA is one of the mobile telecommunication
standards in which security plays an important
role, because attackers may always try to
eavesdrop on the communication.

 One of these attacks is to bypass the encryption

without the knowledge of the legitimate user.

 In this paper we introduced a new circuit to warn

the user in case when the message is not
encrypted because of eavesdropping attacks or
accidental damage.
 References
1. Peter stavroulakis, Terrestrial Trunked
Radio- TETRA: A Global security tool,
Springer- Verlag Heidelberg 2007.
2. G. Roelofsen, KPN Research, “TETRA
Security”, Information Security
Technical Report, Vol. 5, No.3(2000)44-
45, Elsevier science Ltd.
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