Commercial Flights Are Experiencing ‘Unthinkable’ GPS Attacks and Nobody Knows What to Do::New “spoofing” attacks resulting in total navigation failure have been occurring above the Middle East for months, which is “highly significant” for airline safety.

  • Creat@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    you can’t have authentication in a one way system. satellites send days, planes receive it, but never send anything.

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      1 year ago

      You can have a digital signature, so the recievers know it’s legit

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          1 year ago

          Playing with semantics a little, it can be thought of as the satellite authenticating with the client using the signature as password.

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        1 year ago

        That still would be easily defeated, they can just copy the signatures

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          1 year ago

          That’s not how PKI works?

          Unless you know how digital signatures work better than me

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          You can’t copy a signature, since it is different every time the signed content is different. You need to have the correct key in order to make a valid signature.

        • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
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          If you’ve figured out how to do that, a lot of governments would pay you a lot of money for your solution