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Informational 19 Bitcoin

feat(core/prodtest): Add Tropic tests.

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Andrew Kozlik

82/100 · Strong
feat(core/prodtest): Add Tropic tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
✓ Descriptive subject✓ Names a concrete action or component✓ Uses a recognizable type or scope✓ Provides an explanatory body✓ Mentions testing or verification
The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds new factory-testing commands for the Tropic secure chip inside Trezor devices. It does not change normal wallet behavior or user funds handling. The new commands are only reachable in a special manufacturing test mode (prodtest), not in the regular firmware that end users run. The code is defensive: it checks command arguments, limits slot ranges, avoids overwriting certificate slots, re-initializes monotonic counters so they are not left depleted, and erases temporary test data. There is no indication this commit fixes a security bug or introduces a meaningful attack path.

Recommended action

No urgent action required. Treat as a normal feature commit for the manufacturing test image. If reviewing further, verify that prodtest commands are not compiled into production firmware builds and that the deterministic PRNG seeding cannot be influenced by untrusted input to change slot selection in a harmful way.

Security signals we found

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New prodtest-only CLI commands for Tropic secure-element validation

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Argument validation and range clamping for iterations, slot counts, and explicit slots

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Deterministic PRNG used only for slot selection, not for cryptographic material

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Slot access restricted by session privilege level (privileged vs unprivileged)

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Certificate slots 0-5 explicitly excluded from R-memory write tests

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Monotonic counters re-initialized to max after test to avoid depleted state

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Temporary ECC key erased after signing test

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R-memory slots erased after write/read test

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No changes to wallet firmware, bootloader, or cryptographic core

Risk score

Why this scored 19/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 2/30
Exploitability 1/25
Stealth signal 1/15
Affected reach 2/15
Confidence 9/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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