5GDescrambler: Locating, Descrambling, and Decoding 5G Scheduling Information
Fritz Windisch, Thorsten Strufe
Abstract
These are the source and evaluation artifacts accompanying the publication "5GDescrambler: Locating, Descrambling, and Decoding 5G Scheduling Information" in the Proceedings of the 2026 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '26). 5GDescrambler is an open-source end-to-end binary DCI sniffer for 5G networks, featuring a novel technique exploiting algebraic structure on 5G physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), shipped with a full pipeline implementation in Rust. Citing In case 5GDescrambler was useful for your work, please cite our publication as: @inproceedingswindisch20265GDescrambler, author = Windisch, Fritz and Strufe, Thorsten, booktitle = Proceedings of the 2026 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '26), title = 5GDescrambler: Locating, Descrambling, and Decoding 5G Scheduling Information, year = 2026, doi = 10.1145/3830454.3846809, location = The Hague, Netherlands, keywords = 5G, sniffing, scrambling, physical downlink control channel
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