I updated my Android phone to 4.0.4 and i noticed that a new file nfcee access.xml appeared in the system folder. The idea of the file as far as i understood is the keep a list of signatures, and allow access to the SE and related intends only to the packages that are signed with one of this signatures. So far in this list is of course the signature of the Google Wallet.
Does anybody know how would be the process in future to enter this list? Do you need to ask for permission directly Google?
If you root your phone, you can modify the file. The file contains the list of signatures and package names that are allowed access to the Secure Element (SE). The signatures is a hex-encoded X.509 certificate. To create one, simply include the tag <debug /> in the file and it will print to logcat the hex-encoded signature of applications that are denied SE access, for easy cut-and-paste into this file.
To create an app that can access the SE, you need to add this permission to the manifest:
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS" />
To actually access the SE, you need to access a hidden API by importing com.android.nfc_extras:
import com.android.nfc_extras.NfcAdapterExtras;
import com.android.nfc_extras.NfcAdapterExtras.CardEmulationRoute;
import com.android.nfc_extras.NfcExecutionEnvironment;
The easiest way to make this possible is to compile your app in the Android source code tree by placing it in packages/apps and building it from there. You need to add the following line to the Android.mk makefile to get access to the SE API:
LOCAL_JAVA_LIBRARIES := com.android.nfc_extras
The functions in com.android.nfc_extras allow enabling and disabling the SE, sending commands to it and receiving responses from it (comparable to IsoDep.transceive()).
This is interesting indeed. If entering your certificate and package name in this file is all that is needed, you shouldn't need to talk to Google, just get whoever is building the ROM (yourself if custom ROM, or a particular carrier) to include it. The bigger problem though is,
who do you need to talk to to get the CardManager keys. If it is the carrier, you can also get them to pre-install your applet, so you might not need the keys at runtime (unless you want to use a secure channel to your applet).
Update: Here's a summary of SE support in Android and some more info on how to use the embedded one. In short, it does work, but you can only query stuff of course. It runs JavaCard and is GP 2.1.1 compatible, uses 3DES keys for the secure channel.
http://nelenkov.blogspot.com/2012/08/accessing-embedded-secure-element-in.html
http://nelenkov.blogspot.com/2012/08/android-secure-element-execution.html
BTW, here's the currently allowed cert on my GN 4.0.4. A package is not specified, so any app signed with it will get access to the SE:
Certificate:
Data:
Version: 3 (0x2)
Serial Number:
a8:cd:17:c9:3d:a5:d9:90
Signature Algorithm: sha1WithRSAEncryption
Issuer: C=US, ST=California, L=Mountain View, O=Google Inc., OU=Android, CN=Google NFC
Validity
Not Before: Mar 24 01:06:53 2011 GMT
Not After : Aug 9 01:06:53 2038 GMT
Subject: C=US, ST=California, L=Mountain View, O=Google Inc., OU=Android, CN=Google NFC
With cavets: If you can get your application on the nfcee_access list you can do the following things:
Enable the UICC (sim card) and enable the embedded secure element (if present)
Open a communication channel to the embedded secure element and exchange data
Receive transaction data from the UICC (sim card) if the UICC wants to send you data (you'll be receiver only).
You can do all this if you root your phone. No need to hack the nfcee_access list to do so, you can just intercept all traffic to the nfc-chip to so so.
What you can't do, even with a rooted phone:
Install applets on the UICC / eSE
Log/Monitor/influence the data-transfer between the embedded secure element/UICC and an external reader, e.g. hack payment systems.
Caveat: You can do almost everthing if, and only if you have the knowledge and the secure access-keys to access the embedded SE. However, if you have these information you wouldn't ask on stack-overflow. :-)
This knowledge is a well kept secret and no one will tell you this secret unless you are a company as big as google, mastercard, visa, american-express and the like.
The answer is simply NO you cannot do anything with the Secure Element. Only SE owner or issuer can allow the access to the SE - i.e. it is Google itself, or might be First Data (http://www.firstdata.com/en_us/products/merchants/mobile-commerce/trusted-service-manager-solution.html), but I think this company is responsible only for the Google Wallet itself, not for the SE management - this might done by SK C&C - I have no idea...
Take it also that way - the precondition for using embedded secure element is that you are offering excellent service and you are Google partner or other phone manufacturer partner (unless you are from Facebook or similar company save your time and do not try that). This is not easy and 99.99% of services cannot be there.
Regarding secure element now you can wait until SWP and SIM cards will become more popular and acceptable solution, since you might be able to get contract with MNO on national level easier or hope in NFC-WI and SD card solution or go with stickers or external accessories like iCarte for iPhone.
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Using android device to nfc read my country ID card and Driver license (hint: both had 3 lines MRZ of Type TD1 and the Driver card has a number 8digits+'E' near the chip, witch I don't know what is used for!?)
for ID card part I used jmrtd library (BAC protocol, and I successfully read all what I want Data Group {1,2,11,12})
for Driver License, after reading some standards I supposed to do BAP instead-of BAC So I implemented a DLicenseService class the same as PassportService but with some minor changes:
changed EF_COM to 001F and AID to A0000002480200 (witch worked in the first tries) ...
I'm doing BAC as BAP with a custom key derivation algorithm the triplet (docNumber, dateOfBirth, dateOfExpiry) did not work...
My questions are:
Is there any protection against a wrong key derivation multiple attempts (assuming BAP == BAC) because the scuba service now is failing!!...please don't tell me there is and my card is blocked...
Are BAP and BAC equivalent? should I try other protocol?
Do you know the most used key seed derivation algorithm for Driver License (like SHA1 of last 6 doc digits...)
Is there a library to deal with Driver License like jmrtd for travel document?
Yes, BAC and BAP are equivalent
The triplet worked for Driver licence
I implemented all my logic on top of jmrtd code and every think worked fine, basically I implemented :
DLicenseService class
COMFile and all DGxFile that I'm interested in taking into account the correct SFI and Tags values from the iso/IEC FCD 18013-2 standard.
When I try out the example: https://threejs.org/examples/webvr_cubes.html on my Android 7.0 Samsung Galaxy 7 phone using the Chrome browser and the Utopia360 headset, everything works and I can enter VR mode. When I try the exact same thing with exactly the same code, only on my local server, I get "Your browser does not support WebVR. See webvr.info for assistance."
The code is exactly the same and the three.js and WebVR.js files are exactly the same except for where the three.js and WebVR.js files are located in the directory structure (i.e. <script src="js/threejs/three.js" type="text/javascript"></script> instead of <script src="../build/three.js"></script>)
The reason is that the threejs page has an embedded origin token to allow webvr to work without setting the chrome flag enable-webvr, but that only works when the page is served from "threejs.org".
You can see this at the top of the demo pages:
<!-- Origin Trial Token, feature = WebXR Device API (For Chrome M69+), origin = https://threejs.org, expires = 2019-01-07 -->
<meta http-equiv="origin-trial" data-feature="WebXR Device API (For Chrome M69+)" data-expires="2019-01-07" content="ArPzyYNrUDiXsGOh647Ya7MtVUA1nM+WFMnPWu7eoF2nQHOP6mTATIbiv0w+k2kFaPofZG/04ZEQdsACq4IA0wQAAABTeyJvcmlnaW4iOiJodHRwczovL3RocmVlanMub3JnOjQ0MyIsImZlYXR1cmUiOiJXZWJYUkRldmljZU02OSIsImV4cGlyeSI6MTU0Njg4MzAxOH0=">
So you have two choices:
Enable the webvr flag (chrome://flags#enable-webvr) in your phones browser,
Request an origin token that matches the domain of your website here: https://webvr.rocks/chrome_for_android.
Setting the flag worked for me even when page was served via http.
The issue is that you must "serve your WebVR content via HTTPS", according to the Google WebVR status documentation.
Threejs.org is a site that uses HTTPS, but your localhost is almost certainly not delivering the content via a secure connection. That's why you're seeing that misleading warning that "Your browser does not support WebVR", when in fact, it does.
Unfortunately, the available methods to deliver HTTPS via Apache make it sound like the three options to get an SSL certificate for localhosts won't work on Chrome for Android (or are pricey), so using the WebVR polyfill is the best solution for the time being.
It should work even with an untrusted certificate if you proceed. The important thing is that you should have a certificate, of course we are speaking about a development environment 1. However the crucial part: you must use Chrome Canary for Android, see later.
Get Certificate
The easiest way
Use glitch, which is an online full-stack IDE (yep, with node and sqlite, made by the stackoverflow people) which will provide you a trusted subdomain.
Still easy and locally working way.
Creating certificate and corresponding certificate authority (CA)
you should use minica CA tool:
Install minica (You must install and setup a GO and gotools first)
go get github.com/jsha/minica
Run this simple command, you should use you LAN IP instead of localhost, though.
minica --domains localhost
which creates the following files in your working directory
minica-key.pem The private key of your new CA
minica.pem The root certificate of your CA
localhost/cert.pem The certificate of your website
localhost/key.pem The private key to sign of your website certificate.
If you do not know what are these concepts, I recommend this friendly introduction.
Serve your site with your certificate.
You can use the http-server npm package, which is easy to use and can serve certificates
http-server -a 0.0.0.0 -p 8080 -S -C localhost/cert.pem -K localhost/key.pem
then access your site like https://192.168.1.42 or whatever is your LAN IP address.
Install Chrome Canary to your Android
Google play has it.
Setup Chrome Canary flags
Type chrome://flags in your Chrome Canary's URL bar and enable the following flags: #enable-webvr and #enable-gamepad-extensions called WebVR and Gamepad extensions respectively.
Now your are good to go. 2
Notes:
If you plan to deploy your app in production you should acquire a globally trusted certificate from a CA. Let's Encrypt is free and easy automate and backed by the Linux Foundation, and sponsored by many big players.
WebVR on Android Chrome is still unstable and will be changed, so what I wrote will be deprecated soon.
With iOS 9, Apple is mandating the use of HTTPS. While this is all good and secure, it forces me to convert all my dev/testing servers to HTTPS. I'm developing for Android and iOS.
Things I've already tried/looked at:
Running iOS 8 - not a long term solution
Self signed servers - requires adding code to both platforms.
Adding root certificate - probably the way to go but expensive in terms of hours spent on this.
I'd like to know how other people are handling this. Ideally, I'd like a solution based on 3 (or not based on 1 and 2), which works well with simulator/emulator and doesn't require jumping through hoops and constant tinkering with root certificate on various devices.
I'll also take a solution for iOS only (e.g. #ifdef) as Android can stay on HTTP.
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Update: 20 Dec
My servers are IP address only. No domain name.
Using plist settings is an option. However, an answer would have to be specific and complete. I would expect to see something like a script that removes plist settings for 'release' builds.
I'm not a security person, but I suspect that leaving whitelisted IP addresses for attackers to use are a bad idea.
You can very easily add domain names for your development servers by using a free DNS provider. I use http://freedns.afraid.org/ and they have some shared domain names where you can add names for IP's you need. I sometimes do this just for internal servers to make it easier to remember where they are!
As for the plist; all you are doing when you whitelist a name like that is telling the phone app that it can talk to that server with HTTP. If you #ifdef DEBUG the ability for your app to talk to those endpoints, then you should have compiled out the ability of the end user to switch to it!
If you are still concerned about it and are looking to have a build step that removes the exemption then PlistBuddy is your friend. You can remove an exemption using the following command line.
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Delete :NSAppTransportSecurity:NSExceptionDomains:my.devserver.com" Info.plist
Please put this property in your info.plist if you want to work with HTTP/HTTPS with iOS9.
App Transport Security is enabled by default when using NSURLSession, NSURLConnection in iOS9
You can opt-out of ATS for certain URLs in your Info.plist by using NSExceptionDomains. Within the NSExceptionDomains dictionary you can explicitly define URLs that you need exceptions for with ATS. The exceptions you can use are:
NSIncludesSubdomains
NSExceptionAllowsInsecureHTTPLoads
NSExceptionRequiresForwardSecrecy
NSExceptionMinimumTLSVersion
NSThirdPartyExceptionAllowsInsecureHTTPLoads
NSThirdPartyExceptionMinimumTLSVersion
NSThirdPartyExceptionRequiresForwardSecrecy
Each of these keys allows you to granularly disable ATS or particular ATS options on domains where you are unable to support them.
You can refer the answers to this question here,
How do I load an HTTP URL with App Transport Security enabled in iOS 9?
Transport security has blocked a cleartext HTTP
My agency just got their first prototype desfire card that is anticipated to go into production (50K employee agency). I'm trying to connect to, authenticate and read a particular file. So when I present my android device, onDESFIRECardDetected is fired. I connect to the tag (desfire object), authenticate by passing my agency's master and app key and providing the appId. My next step is to try to read a particular file within the application. I don't see any method that accepts the fileId??? I see the command 'Read(int iNoOfBytes)', which the javadoc states, "iNoOfBytes - Number of bytes to read", but from where???. However, when I run my application and put in an arbitrary value for the parameter (e.g. say, 1), an exception is thrown stating, "File Not Found".
Basically, how do I read a particular FileID within an application for a Desfire card using the SDK???
So after consulting with nxp the last couple of days, it turns out this is a limitation with the LITE version. I was told this ability will be available in the advanced version but as of this post, it is not available.
Yes, you are right. Only limited support to DESFire is provided by lite version. Most feature provided by DESFire is not included in the lite version, specially the security related operation. This could be done using api in advanced SDK:
byte[] readData(int fileNo,
int offset,
int length,
DESFireEV1.CommunicationType comSettings);
Or, you need to read the MF3ICD81 functional specification and do all the things from the scratch.
I am writing an application to help test android devices' capabilities to connect to wlan's with varying security settings (ex. wpa aes peap). However, I noticed that the published android.net.wifi api does not contain fields to set parameters needed for peap and eap-fast authentication. Does anybody know how to establish a connection to peap programatically?
Below is a link that shows the WifiConfiguration() class possessing unpublished fields (ex. eap, phase2, identity, password). However, eclipse will not let me utilize these fields in my code since they are not officially in the android api.
http://www.netmite.com/android/mydroid/1.6/frameworks/base/wifi/java/android/net/wifi/WifiConfiguration.java
I was having a similar problem. The solution is to use "Reflection".
Here is a link that should be very applicable to you.
How to programmatically create and read WEP/EAP WiFi configurations in Android?