auth algo XOR

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Harald Welte laforge at gnumonks.org
Thu Dec 14 10:18:37 UTC 2017


Hi Neels,

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 02:18:56AM +0100, Neels Hofmeyr wrote:
> Another detail is that I happen to remember that XOR is set as algorithm on the
> SIM cards we have in the osmo-gsm-tester, at least in the RnD unit.

why is that?  This would have been done explicitly as none of our cards had
it by default.

> How should we deal with it? Implement xor, or remove it from osmo-hlr?
> Or am I missing something?

I'd suggest
* hide XOR as a selectable option in OsmoHLR for now
* create Low-prio feature ticket for libosmocore o implement XOR support,
  and at that time enable it in OsmoMSC + OsmoHLR.

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