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1 ADM access conditions
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2 =====================
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4 The response to SELECT of any EF in the classic GSM 11.11 SIM protocol carries
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5 3 bytes that indicate access conditions for the selected file - or more
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6 precisely, 5 nibbles that indicate access conditions plus one reserved nibble.
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7 Each access condition nibble has the following encoding per standard specs
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8 (GSM TS 11.11 and 3GPP TS 51.011):
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10 Code Meaning
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12 0 ALW
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13 1 CHV1
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14 2 CHV2
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15 3 RFU
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16 4-14 ADM
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17 15 NEV
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19 Access condition codes 4 through 14 (0x4 through 0xE) are defined merely as ADM
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20 by the standard specs, without further distinction. However, those of us who
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21 work with SIM cards on a tinkering or reverse engineering level and thus need
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22 to fully decode SIM SELECT responses for intelligent analysis need to somehow
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23 distinguish between these 11 possible ADM access levels, thus we had to make up
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24 some scheme of our own for naming different ADMn access levels.
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26 Unfortunately it just so happened that FC SIM tools and Grcard have come up with
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27 two different ADMn naming conventions. I (Mother Mychaela) feel that it is too
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28 late now to change our FC SIM tools ADMn naming convention, and of course it is
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29 not our place to tell Grcard company to change theirs. Therefore, the only
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30 remaining solution is to clearly document both naming conventions and just live
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31 with there being two different ones.
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33 In the FC SIM tools convention, the 11 possible ADM access levels for EFs are
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34 named ADM4 through ADM14 - the 'n' in ADMn directly matches the nibble value
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35 carried in the SIM protocol. This convention is used by fc-simtool select and
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36 readef commands when they display the access conditions returned by the SIM.
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38 The convention used by Grcard names these 11 possible ADM access levels ADM1
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39 through ADM11 instead. As a result of this number shift, what Grcard call ADM1
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40 is ADM4 to us, what Grcard call ADM2 is ADM5 to us, and so forth.
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42 ADM key IDs in VERIFY CHV commands
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43 ==================================
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45 Standard specs are silent on the question of exactly how administrative entities
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46 authenticate themselves to the card to gain various ADM access levels, but most
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47 card vendors implement an extended form of the standard VERIFY CHV command in
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48 which the key ID in P2 is not 1 or 2 (standard CHV1 and CHV2), but some other
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49 code identifying ADM keys and corresponding access levels.
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51 There is no requirement that P2 key IDs in the extended VERIFY CHV command used
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52 for ADM authentication have to correspond to the codes used to denote EF access
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53 conditions. However, on the traditional SIM (not UICC/USIM/ISIM) cards made by
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54 Grcard, these two separate places in the binary protocol do use the same codes:
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55 for example, if a given EF has an access condition indicated as code 5 in the
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56 protocol (called ADM5 by us or ADM2 by Grcard), then the corresponding ADM
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57 authentication has to be done with a VERIFY CHV command with P2=05.
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59 ADM PIN numbers on Grcard SIM cards
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62 We are aware of two different card models from Grcard that are specifically GSM
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63 SIM, rather than UICC/USIM/ISIM. (The latter kind also exist of course, but we
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64 have no interest in them.) The first such model is what we call GrcardSIM1
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65 (previously sold by Sysmocom as sysmoSIM-GR1), and the other model is what we
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66 call GrcardSIM2 - previously sold by Sysmocom as sysmoSIM-GR2, and now being
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67 reintroduced as FreeCalypso Community SIM model FCSIM1.
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69 GrcardSIM1 cards are currently understood very poorly because they are extremely
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70 difficult to obtain in the present time (2021). However, they seem to have two
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71 different ADM access levels which Grcard officially call ADM1 and ADM2. In our
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72 FC SIM tools naming convention these ADM access levels become ADM4 and ADM5,
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73 respectively.
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75 GrcardSIM2 cards are understood much better because unlike GrcardSIM1, they are
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76 readily available from Grcard in the present time. They have two different ADM
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77 access levels that are fully explained in the GrcardSIM2-security-model article,
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78 and these two ADM levels are known by different names:
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80 * Osmocom wiki page for GrcardSIM2 calls them ADM and SUPER ADM;
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82 * For our FCSIM1 version of this card, we've named them ADM5 and ADM11, going
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83 by the numbers that appear in the actual binary protocol;
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85 * Looking at Grcard's own documentation (see doc/vendor/grcard2-person-script),
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86 one can see that Grcard engineers refer to them as ADM2 and ADM8, following
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87 the numbering shift explained earlier in this article.
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89 Sysmocom USIM/ISIM cards
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92 All UICC/USIM/ISIM cards we know of (made by Sysmocom and others) have just one
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93 administrative PIN which they call ADM1, and in the UICC protocol this ADM1 PIN
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94 is entered with a VERIFY PIN command with P2=0x0A. If a UICC-native card also
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95 allows ADM1 authentication in a GSM 11.11 SIM protocol session, then the
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96 corresponding extended VERIFY CHV command will also use P2=0x0A.
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98 Because these cards implement the classic GSM 11.11 SIM protocol only as a
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99 backward compatibility mode, rather than native, there is no universal agreement
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100 regarding ADM access level codes returned in SELECT responses for EFs in the
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101 classic SIM protocol: sysmoUSIM-SJS1 cards return ADM5, whereas sysmoISIM-SJA2
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102 cards return ADM10 - both numbers are per FC SIM tools numbering convention of
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103 ADM4 through ADM14.