trezor-core/docs/bootloader.md

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#TREZOR Core Bootloader

Bootloader code is split into two stages. See Memory Layout for more info about in which sectors the code is stored.

First stage checks the integrity and signatures of second stage and runs it if everything is OK. However, if first stage bootloader finds a valid second stage bootloader on the SD card (in raw format, no filesystem), it will replace the internal second stage, allowing an upgrade of the second stage.

First stage is stored in write-protected area, which means only upgrade of the second stage bootloader is allowed.

##Common notes

  • Hash function used is SHA-256 and signature system is Ed25519 (allows combining signatures by multiple keys into one).
  • All multibyte integer values are little endian.

##Bootloader Format

TREZOR Core (second stage) bootloader consists of 2 parts:

  1. bootloader header
  2. bootloader code

###Bootloader Header

Total length of bootloader header is 256 bytes.

offset length name description
0x0000 4 magic firmware magic TRZB
0x0004 4 hlen length of the bootloader header
0x0008 4 expiry valid until timestamp (0=infinity)
0x000C 4 codelen length of the bootloader code
0x0010 1 vmajor version (major)
0x0011 1 vminor version (minor)
0x0012 1 vpatch version (patch)
0x0013 1 vbuild version (build)
0x0014 1 slsigidx SatoshiLabs signature indexes (bitmap)
0x0015 64 slsig SatoshiLabs signature
0x0079 135 reserved not used yet

##Firmware Format

TREZOR Core firmware consists of 3 parts:

  1. vendor header
  2. firmware header
  3. firmware code

###Vendor Header

Total length of vendor header is 82 + 32 * (number of pubkeys) + (length of vendor string) + (length of vendor image) bytes rounded up to the closest multiply of 256 bytes.

offset length name description
0x0000 4 magic firmware magic TRZV
0x0004 4 hlen length of the vendor header
0x0008 4 expiry valid until timestamp (0=infinity)
0x000C 1 vsig_m number of signatures needed to run the firmware from this vendor
0x000D 1 vsig_n number of pubkeys vendor wants to use for signing
0x000E 2 reserved not used yet
0x0010 32 vpub1 vendor pubkey 1
... ... ... ...
? 32 vpubn vendor pubkey n
? 1 vstr_len vendor string length
? ? vstr vendor string
? ? vimg vendor image (in TOIf format)
? 1 slsigidx SatoshiLabs signature indexes (bitmap)
? 64 slsig SatoshiLabs signature

###Firmware Header

Total length of firmware header is 256 bytes.

offset length name description
0x0000 4 magic firmware magic TRZF
0x0004 4 hlen length of the firmware header
0x0008 4 expiry valid until timestamp (0=infinity)
0x000C 4 codelen length of the firmware code
0x0010 1 vmajor version (major)
0x0011 1 vminor version (minor)
0x0012 1 vpatch version (patch)
0x0013 1 vbuild version (build)
0x0014 1 vndsigidx vendor signature indexes (bitmap)
0x0015 64 vndsig vendor signature
0x0079 135 reserved not used yet

##Various ideas

  • Bootloader should be able to read vendor+firmware header and send info about FW to client in features message.
  • Bootloader should not try to run firmware if there is not any.
  • Storage wiping rule: Don't erase storage when old FW and new FW are signed using the same key set. Otherwise erase.
  • Bootloader should send error to client when firmware update fails and allow client to try one more time. This prevents storage area erasure by accident.