DVB CI

DVB Common-Interface (DVB-CI)

DVB-CI defines an interface between a DVB receiver (TV set, Set-Top-Box, Bluray recorder etc.) and a PC-Card module (Conditional Access Module, CAM). It consists of a transport stream interface and a command interface.

On the transport stream interface, a DVB Transport Stream can be routed through the module and optionally be descrambled. The command interface transfers commands like start descrambling. The DVB-CI dissector processes command interface traffic and some hardware events such as module inserted/extracted

History

DVB-CI was defined by DVB in 1997. An extension document followed in 1999, but the extensions defined there were never implemented in practice.

CI+ added content security and other features on top of DVB-CI. CI+ version 1.2 was published in May 2009, version 1.3 followed in January 2011 and version 1.3.1 in October 2011.

standards documents

Example traffic

The screenshot shows dissection of the application_info() APDU. The capture contains no timestamps. If timestamps are available, the dissector can handle them. ** wiresharkDvbciPcap.png

Wireshark

The DVB-CI dissector was written by Martin Kaiser ( wireshark@kaiser.cx ). It is fully functional and has been tested with many capture files.

The following features of the DVB-CI standard EN50221 are supported

DVB-CI CI+ 1.2 CI+ 1.3.1
Resource Manager ok ok ok
Application Info ok ok ok
Conditional Access ok ok ok
Date-Time ok ok ok
MMI (high level) ok ok ok
Host Control ok ok ok
Low-Speed Communication partly ok ok
Host Language and Country not defined ok ok
CAM upgrade not defined ok ok
Content Control not defined ok ok
Application MMI not defined ok ok
Specific Application Support not defined ok ok
Operator Profile not defined not defined ok

There's no plans to support the DVB-CI extensions (TS 101 699) or low-level MMI. For low-speed communication, only IP connections are supported.

The dissector uses pcap files with datalink type 235. The corresponding format is documented at http://www.kaiser.cx/pcap-dvbci.html

Preference Settings

SAC encryption key, SAC init vector

If you provide these two values for your capture file, wireshark is able to decrypt SAC messages sent on the CC resource. This requires libgrypt. Both values consist of 32 hex digits (16 hex bytes). They must be typed in without leading 0x.

Dissect LSC messages

When this setting is enabled, wireshark tries to dissect the payload of LSC APDUs. It calls the dissector that's registered for the protocol and port number given in the connect_on_channel command.

DVB-CI uses length fields in ASN.1 BER format in many messages. To dissect these length fields, the DVB-CI dissector uses the existing BER code. To display details of each length field, select Show internal BER encapsulation tokens from the Edit / Preferences / Protocols / BER preferences menu.

Example capture files

SampleCaptures/dvb-ci_1.pcap startup, requests for descrambling, removal ** SampleCaptures/dvb-ci_2.pcap fragmentation and reassembly on the link layer

Display Filter

Capture Filter

External links

http://www.kaiser.cx/wireshark.html: Info page about the wireshark DVB-CI dissector (obsolete)

Discussion


Imported from https://wiki.wireshark.org/DVB-CI on 2020-08-11 23:13:40 UTC