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Informational 17 Bitcoin

feat(core): Read Tropic certificates.

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Andrew Kozlik

57/100 · Thin
feat(core): Read Tropic certificates.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds a new feature to read pre-stored digital certificates from the Tropic secure chip inside Trezor hardware wallets. It does not change how keys are generated or signed, and it does not appear to fix a known bug or vulnerability. The new code is mostly about safely reading fixed-size data slots from the chip and exposing them to Python applications.

Recommended action

Treat as a routine feature commit rather than a security patch. If reviewing for release, verify that R_MEM_DATA_SLOT_MAX, R_MEM_DATA_SIZE_MAX, TROPIC_DEVICE_CERT_FIRST_SLOT, TROPIC_DEVICE_CERT_SLOT_COUNT, and related FIDO constants are defined securely, and consider replacing the stack buffer in tropic_data_multi_read() with a heap allocation to avoid large stack frames.

Security signals we found

01

New C helpers parse a 2-byte length prefix and enforce length <= max_data_length and length + prefix_length <= total_slots_length

02

Slot index and count are validated against R_MEM_DATA_SLOT_MAX before reading

03

Multi-read helper requires every slot to return exactly R_MEM_DATA_SIZE_MAX bytes

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Large stack allocation of R_MEM_DATA_SIZE_MAX * slot_count noted by the author as suboptimal

05

SECURE_MODE preprocessor guard moved so new helpers are available in non-secure builds

Risk score

Why this scored 17/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 2/30
Exploitability 2/25
Stealth signal 1/15
Affected reach 2/15
Confidence 7/10
Evidence quality 3/5
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