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1 Thoughts on card (re)formatting |
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4 ETSI and 3GPP specs give many more degrees of freedom to SIM card issuers than |
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5 just the content of various EFs: the card issuer gets to decide which DFs and |
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6 EFs will be present vs. which ones won't be present at all, and for many EFs |
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7 the size (allocated space) is variable per the specs and up to the card issuer. |
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8 In the case of record-based EFs, both the record size and the number of records |
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9 are often left up to card issuers to tune as desired. |
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11 In the Mother's opinion, a truly programmable SIM would be one where every |
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12 downstream owner of each card (not just the initial factory or the party putting |
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13 up big bucks for a large custom production run) can do a full reformat: erase |
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14 the file system and then create whatever tree of DFs and EFs she desires, with |
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15 full control over each file's allocated size, structure and access conditions. |
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17 The problem, however, is that the people who work with big bucks and who control |
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18 SIM card manufacturing have taken away our community's ability to freely |
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19 reformat our programmable SIMs downstream of the factory. To the best of our |
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20 knowledge, there has only ever been one SIM card model in the entire history of |
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21 Osmocom community that supported downstream reformatting, and this model was |
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22 sysmoSIM-GR1: |
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24 https://osmocom.org/projects/cellular-infrastructure/wiki/GrcardSIM |
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26 But Grcard company no longer sells that original card model, and for their new |
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27 card model (GrcardSIM2, branded sysmoSIM-GR2 or FCSIM1) there is no published |
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28 documentation for how to erase the card file system and recreate it differently. |
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29 We can only guess that this ability probably exists, but Grcard people are |
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30 refusing to disclose the secret knowledge of how to do it unless we pay them |
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31 some ginormous sum of money. |
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33 The current offering from Sysmocom (sysmoISIM-SJA2) does not fare any better in |
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34 this regard. These cards are natively UICC, and in the world of UICC there |
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35 exist partially standardized commands for creating and deleting files, defined |
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36 in ETSI TS 102 222. However, these commands are only partially standardized: |
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37 the ETSI spec gives the general principles and the command structure, but many |
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38 of the details as to exactly what needs to be put into the TLV structure fed to |
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39 the CREATE FILE command in order for that command to succeed constitute |
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40 proprietary knowledge. Our experiments with this CREATE FILE command on |
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41 sysmoISIM-SJA2 were unsuccessful. The only way how the file structure of |
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42 Sysmocom cards would become truly editable by end users would be if Sysmocom |
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43 were to publish at least one fully worked-out example of a real CREATE FILE |
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44 command that creates some dummy non-standard file just to prove it working, |
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45 followed by a working example of a DELETE FILE command that deletes this newly |
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46 created file, restoring the card to its original state. However, we reason that |
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47 Sysmocom would probably be willing to do this support work only if someone paid |
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48 them for it on an hourly support basis, or ordered a large custom batch of cards |
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49 from them and required this support knowledge as part of that deal - and we |
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50 (FreeCalypso) are not currently in a position to pursue either of those two |
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51 routes. |