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LTE : I came to know that integrity and ciphering order for RRC and NAS level are reverse to each other ?

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I am bit confused why the different order are used for integrity and ciphering of RRC and NAS message ?
What if the same order (ciphering and then integrity) is used for RRC message ?

posted Feb 21, 2016 by Harshita

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