Change in osmo-ttcn3-hacks[master]: bsc: also allow empty key for A5/0

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neels gerrit-no-reply at lists.osmocom.org
Mon Jun 21 03:39:10 UTC 2021


neels has uploaded this change for review. ( https://gerrit.osmocom.org/c/osmo-ttcn3-hacks/+/24732 )


Change subject: bsc: also allow empty key for A5/0
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bsc: also allow empty key for A5/0

Change-Id: Id54abc09dd62d7247a970a03ed8c2209b641f511
---
M bsc/MSC_ConnectionHandler.ttcn
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)



  git pull ssh://gerrit.osmocom.org:29418/osmo-ttcn3-hacks refs/changes/32/24732/1

diff --git a/bsc/MSC_ConnectionHandler.ttcn b/bsc/MSC_ConnectionHandler.ttcn
index 12712db..9b6f8b1 100644
--- a/bsc/MSC_ConnectionHandler.ttcn
+++ b/bsc/MSC_ConnectionHandler.ttcn
@@ -718,7 +718,7 @@
 	var PDU_BSSAP bssap;
 	var RSL_Message rsl;
 	var RSL_AlgId alg_rsl;
-	var octetstring expect_kc;
+	var template octetstring expect_kc;
 
 	if (isvalue(enc.enc_kc128)) {
 		BSSAP.send(ts_BSSMAP_CipherModeCmdKc128(enc.enc_alg, enc.enc_key, valueof(enc.enc_kc128)));
@@ -732,6 +732,13 @@
 
 	if (alg_rsl == RSL_ALG_ID_A5_4 and ispresent(enc.enc_kc128)) {
 		expect_kc := enc.enc_kc128;
+	} else if (alg_rsl == RSL_ALG_ID_A5_0) {
+		/* When A5/0 is chosen, no encryption is active, so technically, no key is needed. However, 3GPP TS
+		 * 48.058 9.3.7 Encryption Information stays quite silent about presence or absence of a key for A5/0.
+		 * The only thing specified is how to indicate the length of the key; the possibility that the key may
+		 * be zero length is not explicitly mentioned. So it seems that we should always send the key along,
+		 * even for A5/0. Still, let's also allow a zero length key for A5/0. */
+		expect_kc := (enc.enc_key, ''O);
 	} else {
 		expect_kc := enc.enc_key;
 	}

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Gerrit-Branch: master
Gerrit-Change-Id: Id54abc09dd62d7247a970a03ed8c2209b641f511
Gerrit-Change-Number: 24732
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