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author Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org>
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1 This code repository contains current versions of FreeCalypso SIM card
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2 manipulation utilities fc-simtool and fc-uicc-tool; the old versions which were
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3 previously maintained in the freecalypso-hwlab Hg repository are now deprecated
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4 and no longer maintained.
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6 The present utilities operate on SIM cards that are inserted into a smart card
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7 "reader" device attached to the user's host computer (PC or laptop), *without*
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8 going through any kind of phone or other GSM device. Whichever smart card
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9 "reader" hardware you are going to use, it needs to be supported by pcsc-lite
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10 software: our tools link with libpcsclite and thus require this library and its
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11 header files to be installed in order to compile; actually running the programs
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12 and getting them to work further requires pcscd and appropriate pcsc-lite back
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13 end drivers. The Mother uses HID Omnikey 3121 and 6121 CCIDs (USB-interfaced),
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14 with pcsc-lite and its ccid back end installed under Slackware 14.2.
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16 fc-simtool is the utility of primary interest. It speaks the classic GSM 11.11
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17 SIM protocol to the card (as opposed to the unwanted-innovation UICC protocol),
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18 and it is intended to be useful to end users of regular operator-issued SIM
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19 cards without admin privileges. High-level user-friendly commands include
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20 manipulating PINs and phonebooks; low-level commands allow you to SELECT any
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21 arbitrary file (MF/DF/EF) and to perform READ and UPDATE commands on any EF
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22 (BINARY or RECORD as appropriate) as the card will allow, given your access
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23 level. We (FreeCalypso core team) are also doing some experiments with
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24 programmable SIM cards, hoping to some day be able to issue our own SIMs, but
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25 this work is currently very experimental and not ready for consumption.
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27 fc-uicc-tool is currently a very minimal tool for a few narrow use cases. It
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28 implements a small subset of fc-simtool commands (basic low-level ones), but
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29 speaking the new UICC protocol to the card - as well as new SELECT by AID
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30 commands that are only possible with this new protocol, granting access to ADFs
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31 for USIM and ISIM. The tool's only useful functions right now are (1) testing
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32 whether or not a given card has USIM/ISIM functionality present, and (2)
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33 manually exploring the file system under ADF.USIM or ADF.ISIM which cannot be
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34 accessed in any other way. fc-uicc-tool does NOT currently replicate any of
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35 the high-level end-user-oriented functionality of fc-simtool!