METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING USER OF COMMUNICATION TERMINAL WITH IDENTITY CONFIDENTIALITY PROTECTION

摘要

A method, apparatus and computer program are provided in the present invention for providing the user of the communication terminal with identity confidentiality protection. In the present invention, at least two pseudonyms are allocated, by the network entity that manages user identities, to the user of the communication terminal; when the relative entity in the network sends a message, which requests to obtain the user permanent identity, to the communication terminal to identify the user of it, the communication terminal replaces the permanent identity with the non-current pseudonym allocated to the user in response to the message it receives, and sends a response message to the relative entity in the network, thereby eliminating the potential safety hazard that is resulted from the transmission of permanent identity from the communication terminal to the entities in the network.