Imaging and Analysis of GSM SIM Cards
Christopher Swenson, Gavin W. Manes, Sujeet Shenoi · Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks · 2006
Cellular phones are becoming ubiquitous. As of March 2005, there were more than 180 million cellular subscribers in the United States, over 60% of the population. Cellular devices invariably contain information that can aid criminal investigations. Nevertheless, extracting evidence from cellular phones is quite uncommon in the United States. The principal reasons are the lack of awareness and training on the part of law enforcement agents and the limited availability of inexpensive tools for extracting and analyzing evidence. This paper describes a toolkit for extracting and analyzing data from SIM cards, which are used for cryptographic authentication, key generation and data storage in GSM cellular phones.