Problems with A5/3 encryption

This is merely a historical archive of years 2008-2021, before the migration to mailman3.

A maintained and still updated list archive can be found at https://lists.osmocom.org/hyperkitty/list/OpenBSC@lists.osmocom.org/.

Bruckner Jan (ETAS-SEC/ECT-Mu) Jan.Bruckner at escrypt.com
Tue Mar 6 13:03:30 UTC 2018


Hi Domi,

I have attached another trace containing the following:

- Location Update + Authentication of the MS that will send the SMS (packets 1-45)
- Sending and receiving an SMS (text: “a5/1”) with encryption set to A5/1 (packets 46-140)
    - works
- Sending an SMS (text: “a5/3”) with encryption set to A5/3 (packets 141-730)
    - the MS tries to send several times until it gives up. No Ciphering Mode Complete is received.
- Switching back to A5/1 and resending the SMS with text "a5/3" (packets 731-827)
    - works

I hope that helps.

Thanks,
Jan
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: a5_1_3_with_LU_Auth.pcapng
Type: application/octet-stream
Size: 96324 bytes
Desc: a5_1_3_with_LU_Auth.pcapng
URL: <http://lists.osmocom.org/pipermail/openbsc/attachments/20180306/0ff3a594/attachment.obj>


More information about the OpenBSC mailing list