Semisol 👨💻 on Nostr: still, a pointless attempt. coldcard for example has a dedicated privileged flash ...
still, a pointless attempt.
coldcard for example has a dedicated privileged flash segment (the “boot ROM” which is not ROM at all) that handles retrieving the key and could store the PIN/root key in its small flash segment
it is not truly verifiable without ripping out the chip and faulting it
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2024-10-15 22:17:24Event JSON
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"content": "still, a pointless attempt.\n\ncoldcard for example has a dedicated privileged flash segment (the “boot ROM” which is not ROM at all) that handles retrieving the key and could store the PIN/root key in its small flash segment\n\nit is not truly verifiable without ripping out the chip and faulting it",
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