Glitched on Earth by Humans: A Black-Box Security Evaluation of the SpaceX Starlink User Terminal

This presentation covers the first black-box hardware security evaluation of the SpaceX Starlink UT. The UT uses a custom quad-core Cortex-A53 System-on-Chip (SoC) that implements verified boot based on the ARM trusted firmware (TF-A) project. The early stage TF-A bootloaders, and in particular the immutable ROM bootloader include custom fault injection countermeasures. Despite the black-box nature of our evaluation we were able to bypass firmware signature verification during execution of the ROM bootloader using voltage fault injection....

By: Lennert Wouters …

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