GSM FPGA boards for real time interception

Here are some photos of the new boards and it's chassis . Notice that it covers the 1800Mhz and 900Mhz bands.

Will be testing it in a few.

Happy New Year folks.
Got too lazy but I'm back with some even better news. Managed to acquire a more powerful FPGA board from National Instruments among other interesting boards. It is capable of a full GSM spectrum interception, both uplink and downlink.
The interesting bit about this acquisition is that it will enable me pursue GSM interception as I work on real time deciphering of A5/1 and A5/2 which are the de facto algorithms used by MNO's. The other challenge will involve getting GPU's which will enable real time decryption bearing in mind that currently the open source way of doing it using the 2TB Rainbow tables takes about a month or so...not very sure.

Nonetheless, this is an interesting step bearing in mind I haven't even blogged about the experimental stage using the USRP2.

Ill keep you posted on this development. Oh yes, post on airplane tracking using python and Google Earth + USRP2 coming up in the next few days.


Keep hacking..

-ty