Open Mobile API: Accessing the UICC on Android Devices

Michael Roland; Michael Hölzl

doi:10.48550/arXiv.1601.03027

Open Mobile API: Accessing the UICC on Android Devices

Michael Roland
, Michael Hölzl

Institute of Networks and Security

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Abstract

This report gives an overview of secure element integration into Android devices. It focuses on the Open Mobile API as an open interface to access secure elements from Android applications. The overall architecture of the Open Mobile API is described and current Android devices are analyzed with regard to the availability of this API. Moreover, this report summarizes our efforts of reverse engineering the stock ROM of a Samsung Galaxy S3 in order to analyze the integration of the Open Mobile API and the interface that is used to perform APDU-based communication with the UICC (Universal Integrated Circuit Card). It further provides a detailed explanation on how to integrate this functionality into CyanogenMod (an after-market firmware for Android devices).

Original language	English
Place of Publication	arxiv.org
Publisher	arXiv
Number of pages	76
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1601.03027
Publication status	Published - 12 Jan 2016

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102 Computer Sciences
102016 IT security

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Engineering and Natural Sciences (in general)
Digital Transformation

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