Retrieve OP from OPc and Ki

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Kathryn Heckman exuberant.kathryn.heckman at gmail.com
Thu Sep 28 01:46:27 UTC 2017


I really appreciate your quick replies.

I have a USIM that I wanted to program. However, I am getting the runtime
error for exceeding the number of attempts to enter the ADM1 key. Is there
any fix for it?

--
Kathryn

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 6:52 PM, Harald Welte <laforge at gnumonks.org> wrote:

> Hi Kathryn,
>
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 05:37:36PM -0400, Kathryn Heckman wrote:
> > Is there any way to retrieve the value of OP from OPc and Ki?
>
> No, that defeats the entire purpose of having card-individual OPc
> values.
>
> If you could just revert that operation, there would be no [security]
> advantage of card-individual OPc values over a global OP value, and
> hence that entire option could be dropped from the specifications
> altogether.
>
> Regards,
>         Harald
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