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1 FPGA component of FreeCalypso SIMsniff |
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4 The present FreeCalypso solution for SIM interface sniffing consists of a |
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5 sniffer pod (hardware adapter with level shifters) and a Lattice Icestick FPGA |
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6 board, loaded with the appropriate gateware image from the present project. |
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7 This document describes the design and operation of the FPGA component of |
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8 FC SIMsniff. |
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10 Hardware architecture and FPGA design principle |
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13 The two principal components of the Icestick board are an iCE40HX1K FPGA and an |
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14 FT2232H-based USB host interface. Our sniffer logic function in the FPGA |
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15 operates principally as a byte forwarder from the ISO 7816-3 sniffer block to |
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16 the FT2232H UART: every time the bus sniffer block captures a character (in ISO |
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17 7816-3 terminology) being passed on the SIM electrical interface in either |
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18 direction (the two directions of transmission are indistinguishable to a tap |
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19 sniffer that does not actively participate in the protocol), the FPGA forwards |
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20 this character to the connected host computer (by way of FT2232H UART) for |
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21 further processing in software. The UART data line going from the FPGA to the |
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22 FT2232H is the sole functional output from this FPGA, aside from some |
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23 non-essential LED outputs: right now the green LED shows the current state of |
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24 SIM RST line, and we might add another LED showing if SIM CLK is running or |
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25 stopped. The other UART data line going the opposite direction (output from |
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26 FT2232H) remains unused in this application, i.e., the host software application |
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27 will only read/receive from the ttyUSBx FPGA device and won't send anything to |
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28 it. All modem control lines on this UART interface likewise remain unused. |
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30 Serial interface format |
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31 ======================= |
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33 For every ISO 7816-3 character captured by the sniffer, two back-to-back UART |
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34 bytes are transferred from the FPGA to the host computer; more generally, the |
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35 FPGA can only transmit pairs of back-to-back bytes on this UART and no |
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36 singletons or other arrangements - thus the host receiver can always recover |
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37 synchronization by dropping any partially received two-byte message (the first |
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38 byte of an expected pair) during prolonged pauses. The FPGA transmits the two |
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39 back-to-back UART bytes as a single shift-out of 20 bits, conveying two bytes |
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42 Why are we turning every captured ISO 7816-3 character into a pair of bytes on |
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43 our internal UART interface, why not simply forward it as a single byte? The |
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44 reason is that we need to pass some additional bits beyond the 8 that comprise |
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45 the ISO 7816-3 character payload; the additional bits which we need to pass are |
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48 - the received parity bit; |
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49 - a flag indicating whether or not an error signal (ISO 7816-3 section 7.3) |
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50 was seen; |
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51 - additional flag bits communicating SIM RST assertion and negation events, |
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52 as distinct from ISO 7816-3 characters; |
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53 - additional flags indicating actions of the integrated PPS catcher state |
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54 machine, to be described later in this document. |
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56 Assertion or negation of SIM RST is the only other possible event (besides ISO |
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57 7816-3 character capture, with or without attendant PPS catcher state machine |
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58 action) that can cause the FPGA to send a byte-pair UART message to the host |
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59 computer. One bit in the 16-bit message will distinguish between characters |
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60 and RST events, another bit will indicate the state of RST at the time of the |
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61 event (new RST for transitions, 1 for characters), and all other bits are |
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64 Detailed serial interface format |
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67 Treating the two transmitted bytes as a single 16-bit word, with the least |
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69 within a byte, see IEN 137), the 16 bits of this word are assigned as follows: |
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71 Bit 15: set to 0 if this message signals ISO 7816-3 character reception or 1 if |
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77 The remaining bits are valid only in character Rx messages: |
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80 captured in one of the supported speed enhancement modes (F=512, D=8/16/32/64). |
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82 Bit 12: set to 1 in the byte position that is expected to be the final PCK byte |
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87 the card's PPS response, 0 otherwise. |
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97 Bits [7:0]: payload bits of the received character. |
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102 The baud rate on the UART interface between the FPGA and the FT2232H converter |
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107 thus it doesn't matter if the baud rate is standard-ish or totally |
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129 The 3 inputs to the FPGA coming from the SIM electrical sniffer (buffered and |
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135 As stated in the previous section, the baud rate on the UART interface between |
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166 ISO 7816-3 characters captured in this F/D=372 mode are received, our PPS |
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171 receiver's notion of etu length is switched at the correct point in time: |
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178 Only the card and not the interface device (ISO 7816-3 terminology) determines |
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191 Our sniffer FPGA logic was developed incrementally. The first version, |
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193 7816-3 sniffing Rx block with fixed F/D ratio of 372. That simple version is |
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210 which we will need to sniff and trace in the course of Vintage Mobile Phone |
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211 debugging and support will include a PPS exchange switching from F/D=372 to a |
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220 (PCK) of the SIM's PPS response passes across the wire. If we were to rely on |
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221 host software to decode all byte exchanges up to this point (ATR from the SIM, |
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222 PPS request from ME/ID, then PPS response) and command the FPGA (UART in the |
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223 other direction, or a modem control line) to switch the etu counters (the |
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224 0.5 etu, 1 etu and 1.5 etu counters mentioned earlier in this document), we |
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225 stand very little chance of getting this command to the FPGA in time, before |
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226 ME/ID starts transmitting its next command to the SIM using the new etu |
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227 definition. |
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229 Designs that incorporate a local CPU core immediately adjacent to the ISO 7816-3 |
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230 receiver block, such as original Osmocom SIMtrace in which the local CPU core |
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231 and the ISO 7816-3 receiver sit in the same AT91SAMx chip, don't suffer from |
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232 this problem: with a local (dedicated, embedded) CPU so close, the firmware can |
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233 react and intervene in time. However, in the case of FC SIMsniff, the nearest |
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234 CPU is the host computer separated by UART and USB links - not closely coupled |
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235 enough to provide the degree of real-time response that is needed here. Someone |
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236 could say that we should stick a soft CPU core with firmware into our FPGA - but |
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237 we've implemented a different solution: we have a specialized PPS catcher state |
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238 machine instead. This gateware FSM follows the spec-defined structure of ATR, |
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239 PPS request and PPS response, and locates the two key items of interest to us: |
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241 * The PPS1 byte in the card's PPS response, which we check for a supported speed |
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242 enhancement mode (the upper 6 bits need to match 0x94) and from which we |
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243 extract the two lsbs selecting among D=8/16/32/64; |
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245 * The PCK byte that concludes the card's PPS response - the point where we throw |
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246 the switch to sniffing with the new F/D ratio. |