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diff --git a/2010/osmocombb-sstic2010/osmocombb-abstract.txt b/2010/osmocombb-sstic2010/osmocombb-abstract.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..497e495 --- /dev/null +++ b/2010/osmocombb-sstic2010/osmocombb-abstract.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +OsmocomBB: A tool for GSM protocol level security analysis of GSM networks + +By: Harald Welte[1] + +The OsmocomBB project[2] is a Free Software implementation of the GSM +protocol stack running on a mobile phone. + +For decades, the cellular industry comprised by cellphone chipset makers and +network operators keep their hardware and system-level software as well as GSM +protocol stack implementations closed. As a result, it was never possible +to send arbitrary data at the lower levels of the GSM protocol stack. +Existing phones only allow application-level data to be specified, such as +SMS messages, IP over GPRS or circuit-switched data (CSD). + +Using OsmocomBB, the security researcher finally has a tool equivalent +to an Ethernet card in the TCP/IP protocol world: A simple transceiver +that will send arbitrary protocol messages to a GSM network. + +Well-known and established techniques like protocol fuzzing can finally +be used in GSM networks and reveal how reliable and fault tolerant the +equipment used in the GSM networks really is. + +[1] http://laforge.gnumonks.org/ +[2] http://bb.osmocom.org/ |