Matthew Kaufman wrote:
On 10/9/2010 8:00 AM, Magnus Danielson wrote:
Hmm. Yes. Creative! Once demonstrated essentially all WAAS/EGNOS/SBAS
sats need to develope some protective measure.
Unless, of course, such protective measures already exist. I can think
of several ways right off the top of my head... one would be to have the
transponder be able to shut itself down if it doesn't appear to be
relaying a single valid code stream... another would be to have ensured
that the maximum power density was low enough that anything with enough
real satellites in view couldn't be practically interfered with...
another is to have ground-based monitoring and a transponder enable
system that can't simply be jammed into the "on" mode but rather
requires a key be sent require regularly to keep the transponder powered
up...
that would assume that the WAAS transponders are actually purpose
designed, and not just a generic bent pipe that was repurposed from
something else.
If it's purpose designed, it's easy.. the uplink signal doesn't have to
look anything like the downlink signal. You could, for instance, send up
two signals which have to be combined on board to make the downlink signal.
For the initial WAAS, they may have just leased transponders that
already existed.. which would be vulnerable, after a fashion. There
are a variety of AJ measures taken by the satellite operators (no more
Capt. Midnight stuff)
I just haven't seen anything in the literature noting that the threat
had been looked at and/or addressed in any way.
Unlikely that this would be in the open literature. It's pretty clearly
one of those things that falls under export control.
To pull it off, a standard GPS simulator and some minor frequency
conversion is needed. Should not stop the handy man.
Indeed.
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