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.

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      7 months ago

      yes of course, but that isn’t authentication.

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        7 months 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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        7 months ago

        That’s not how PKI works?

        Unless you know how digital signatures work better than me

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        7 months ago

        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.

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        7 months ago

        If you’ve figured out how to do that, a lot of governments would pay you a lot of money for your solution