On 4/24/10 11:28 AM, Frank A. Stevenson wrote:
> I have started computing tables with the following parameters:
> DP=12bits , rounds=8, extra clockings=100
>   
..
> [Lookup from table with ID:100]
> #### Found potential key (bits: 37)
> #### ae5b16cb41710ba0 
> #### Stepping back to mix 
> #### ae5b16cb41710ba0 -> ae5b16cb41710ba0 
> Candidate: f5212b11b0342617 
> Candidate: f5212b88d81c2617 
> ### Frame is 257 ### 
>
> I have previously been able to find keys that produce challenge output,
> but this is the first key that passes the backwards clocking test. The
>   

This is really, really good news! Well done!

> candidates are equivalent, and will both produce the same GSM frame.
>
>   
(I assume you and others know this, but just to clarify to anyone else 
listening: )

This equivalence of course is logical (for candidates derived from a 
single hit from the table) - the real test will lie in trying to decode 
other frames from the conversation. In theory only one candidate will 
get you to the right Kc (*) when clocking out FN.

In theory there is the chance that you hit on a branch of states 
producing the right keystream, but being a totally different state, but 
I assume this chance is approximately zero.

Cheers, M.

(*) we don't really need or want to get to Kc, but we are merely looking 
for the A5/1 state after clocking Kc in

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