[Openbts-discuss] SMSCB in OpenBTS

[Arturo C. <cd...@gm...>]

Hello everybody,

Currently, I'm a security master student of a joint program in the
Netherlands and I'm developing my final research project. As some of you
might now, cell broadcast service is gaining importance to provide warning
and emergency services and the Netherlands is one of the countries pushing
to deploy this service. In my research project I will analyze the security
of CBS, more specifically, I will fuzz mobile devices using the CBS
service, to see how the devices react to malformed or unexpected messages.

To accomplish the above I will use OpentBTS along with an Ettus
Research USRP hosted at Radboud University Nijmegen under a controlled
environment, so no worries regarding illegal tranmission of messages or
frequency interference. As far as I know, only the OpenBTS commercial
version supports SMSCB, is this still true? On a
post<http://www.mentby.com/Group/openbts-discuss/openbts-commercial-release-and-rangenetwork-appliance.html>from
July 4, 2012, Alexander Chemeris mentions Fairwaves developes custom
solutions for the OpenBTS public version and that the company could
implement SMSCB support, was this the case? and if it is, where can I find
this version of OpenBTS?

Finally, in case my only option is to use the commercial OpenBTS. Do I have
to purchase a whole piece of equipment or can I only get a license? If the
latter is true, what is the price of such a license?

I want to thank you all in advanced for your help!

Cheers,
Arturo

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Information security student @ Kerckhoffs Institute
Eindhoven University of Technology
The Netherlands