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With osmo-remsim and Android APDU proxy we have two powerful solutions to allow remote acces to UICC/eUICC cards. Let's add a section where we give a brief overview about those solutions, so that pySim-shell users get awre of them. Related: OS#6367 Change-Id: I73de4de2e5d4a01d6d91989ee684cbdb680de8ef
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Remote access to an UICC/eUICC
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To access a card with pySim-shell, it is not strictly necessary to have physical
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access to it. There are solutions that allow remote access to UICC/eUICC cards.
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In this section we will give a brief overview.
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osmo-remsim
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osmo-remsim is a suite of software programs enabling physical/geographic
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separation of a cellular phone (or modem) on the one hand side and the
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UICC/eUICC card on the other side.
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Using osmo-remsim, you can operate an entire fleet of modems/phones, as well as
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banks of SIM cards and dynamically establish or remove the connections between
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modems/phones and cards.
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To access remote cards with pySim-shell via osmo-remseim (RSPRO), the
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provided libifd_remsim_client would be used to provide a virtual PC/SC reader
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on the local machine. pySim-shell can then access this reader like any other
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PC/SC reader.
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More information on osmo-remsim can be found under:
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* https://osmocom.org/projects/osmo-remsim/wiki
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* https://ftp.osmocom.org/docs/osmo-remsim/master/osmo-remsim-usermanual.pdf
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Android APDU proxy
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Android APDU proxy is an Android app that provides a bridge between a host
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computer and the UICC/eUICC slot of an Android smartphone.
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The APDU proxy connects to VPCD server that runs on the remote host (in this
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case the local machine where pySim-shell is running). The VPCD server then
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provides a virtual PC/SC reader, that pySim-shell can access like any other
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PC/SC reader.
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On the Android side the UICC/eUICC is accessed via OMAPI (Open Mobile API),
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which is available in Android since API level Android 8 (API level 29).
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More information Android APDU proxy can be found under:
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* https://gitea.osmocom.org/sim-card/android-apdu-proxy
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