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| author | Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org> |
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| date | Fri, 12 Feb 2021 05:25:43 +0000 |
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| 1 This code repository contains current versions of FreeCalypso SIM card | |
| 2 manipulation utilities fc-simtool and fc-uicc-tool; the old versions which were | |
| 3 previously maintained in the freecalypso-hwlab Hg repository are now deprecated | |
| 4 and no longer maintained. | |
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| 6 The present utilities operate on SIM cards that are inserted into a smart card | |
| 7 "reader" device attached to the user's host computer (PC or laptop), *without* | |
| 8 going through any kind of phone or other GSM device. Whichever smart card | |
| 9 "reader" hardware you are going to use, it needs to be supported by pcsc-lite | |
| 10 software: our tools link with libpcsclite and thus require this library and its | |
| 11 header files to be installed in order to compile; actually running the programs | |
| 12 and getting them to work further requires pcscd and appropriate pcsc-lite back | |
| 13 end drivers. The Mother uses HID Omnikey 3121 and 6121 CCIDs (USB-interfaced), | |
| 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 | |
| 17 SIM protocol to the card (as opposed to the unwanted-innovation UICC protocol), | |
| 18 and it is intended to be useful to end users of regular operator-issued SIM | |
| 19 cards without admin privileges. High-level user-friendly commands include | |
| 20 manipulating PINs and phonebooks; low-level commands allow you to SELECT any | |
| 21 arbitrary file (MF/DF/EF) and to perform READ and UPDATE commands on any EF | |
| 22 (BINARY or RECORD as appropriate) as the card will allow, given your access | |
| 23 level. We (FreeCalypso core team) are also doing some experiments with | |
| 24 programmable SIM cards, hoping to some day be able to issue our own SIMs, but | |
| 25 this work is currently very experimental and not ready for consumption. | |
| 26 | |
| 27 fc-uicc-tool is currently a very minimal tool for a few narrow use cases. It | |
| 28 implements a small subset of fc-simtool commands (basic low-level ones), but | |
| 29 speaking the new UICC protocol to the card - as well as new SELECT by AID | |
| 30 commands that are only possible with this new protocol, granting access to ADFs | |
| 31 for USIM and ISIM. The tool's only useful functions right now are (1) testing | |
| 32 whether or not a given card has USIM/ISIM functionality present, and (2) | |
| 33 manually exploring the file system under ADF.USIM or ADF.ISIM which cannot be | |
| 34 accessed in any other way. fc-uicc-tool does NOT currently replicate any of | |
| 35 the high-level end-user-oriented functionality of fc-simtool! |