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regarding the upper 6 bits of the mystery byte
author | Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org> |
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date | Wed, 05 May 2021 05:22:28 +0000 |
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GrcardSIM2 cards have a proprietary EF under DF_GSM with file ID 0x0001; Osmocom wiki page for this card model gives EF.WEKI as the name for this proprietary file. We (FreeCalypso) have no idea as to where this name came from, and where and how the people who wrote that wiki page (Sysmocom staff or not - unknown) got this knowledge. This file is important because it stores Ki and the selection of COMP128 algorithm version, but the same file also appears to have other fields serving other purposes which are not currently understood. When we (FreeCalypso) asked Grcard about this proprietary file, they sent us a "personalization" command script which we have archived in this code repository under doc/vendor/grcard2-person-script; this script is a sequence of command APDUs (raw hex with minimal comments) for an example card programming. The proprietary file in question is named GSM_KI in this script; the origin of the name EF.WEKI that appears in the Osmocom wiki page is still unknown. The total length of this transparent EF is 35 bytes, out of which only the first 19 bytes are documented in the Osmocom wiki page and written by their pySim-prog tool. Interestingly enough, Grcard's "personalization" command script also writes only the first 19 bytes. Let us now break down this file according to our currently available limited understanding: * The first two bytes are always 00 10 - these byte values appear in "blank" unprogrammed cards as shipped by Grcard, they also appear in the Osmocom wiki page, and are programmed by pySim-prog. The "personalization" script we got from Grcard also programs the same 00 10 in these two bytes. The purpose and meaning of these two bytes are completely unknown, and we have never tried writing anything different into them. * The next byte gives COMP128 algorithm selection plus something else that is not understood: - The low 2 bits of this byte select COMP128 algorithm version as follows: 0b00 = COMP128v1 0b01 = COMP128v2 0b10 = COMP128v3 Note that the Osmocom wiki page is wrong in its description of these bits: setting these two bits to 0b11 ends up selecting COMP128v2 rather than v3. (pySim-prog is unaffected because it always writes 00 into the whole byte, selecting COMP128v1.) - The remaining 6 bits of this byte are not understood. Osmocom wiki page tells people to write zeros into the upper 6 bits and so does pySim-prog; the "personalization" command script we got from Grcard also writes zeros into these upper 6 bits. However, if one orders "blank" or unprogrammed cards from Grcard like we do, the initial "unprogrammed" state of this byte is 0x20, as one can see in the data/grcard2-blank-state dump. Setting the upper nibble to either 0 or 2 does not seem to affect the result of RUN GSM ALGORITHM operations, thus it probably controls something else - or perhaps that bit controls nothing at all, and the "unprogrammed" state is merely a bogon - we have no way of knowing. * The next 16 bytes store Ki - this part is straightforward. * The last 16 bytes are not understood; our "blank" unprogrammed cards from Grcard have all FFs in these bytes. fc-simtool support for programming Ki and COMP128 algorithm selection ===================================================================== Even if we never learn the function of the other mysterious fields of EF.WEKI, we must be able to program our own Ki and make our own selection of COMP128 algorithm version in order to use these programmable SIM cards with our own GSM networks. The following solution has been implemented in the absence of better documentation: * Our grcard2-set-comp128 command takes one or two arguments; the first argument must be 1, 2 or 3, selecting COMP128 algorithm version, whereas the second optional argument gives the value to be written into the upper 6 bits of the mystery byte. The operation of this command always begins with selecting EF.WEKI, but then differs depending on whether or not the optional second argument was given. If only the COMP128 version argument was given, our command reads the previous content of the magic byte at offset 2, keeps the upper 6 bits unchanged, and writes the new COMP128 algorithm selection into the low 2 bits. OTOH, if two arguments are given, then our command writes the whole byte without reading its previous value; the first argument sets the COMP128 algorithm version and the second argument sets the non-understood upper 6 bits. The second argument is always interpreted as hex and must be in the range between 00 and FC, with the low 2 bits clear. * Our grcard2-set-ki command writes 16 bytes at offset 3, leaving all other bytes untouched. Practical choice for the upper 6 bits of the mystery byte ========================================================= Following the principle of separation of mechanism and policy, our grcard2-set-comp128 command allows the upper 6 bits of the mystery byte to be either set explicitly or left unchanged. However, for actual operational use of our FCSIM1 cards with our own GSM networks with COMP128v3, should we set the complete byte to 0x02 or to 0x22? Based on the official "personalization" script from Grcard, I (Mother Mychaela) have decided to write zeros into the non-understood upper 6 bits, and this policy choice is embodied in our fcsim1-defprog command script.