Sure. Based on your other comments you are using a USB device that explicitly provides no security guarantees when someone has physical access to it, so any attempt to secure the communications between the host and device are moot.
Sure. Based on your other comments you are using a USB device that explicitly provides no security guarantees when someone has physical access to it, so any attempt to secure the communications between the host and device are moot.
- Is the device hackable? AFAIK not at this moment. The firmware is minimal. It is a relatively new device, so maybe I am not fully informed.
- Is the device stealable/swappable? Yes. However, it isn't possible/easy to access the internal device-secret (UDS) therefore, swapping it out leads to different secret for the program, cascading into the identity, therefore authentication would fail. (Also, if you steal it, then it's gone. :-P)
- There are protections against opening it up. I'm not an expert on this, so I cannot reliably reproduce from memory the ways it is resistant to this. However, it already means your destroying hardware in the process.
It is just a package around an inexpensive FPGA chip. Published and un-published attacks against it exist. For these reasons the TKey developers call out "[a]ll physical and electrical attacks applied to the board [are out of scope]" in the threat model.
https://hackaday.com/2018/09/27/three-part-deep-dive-explain...
https://github.com/sylefeb/Silice/blob/draft/projects/ice40-...
> There are protections against opening it up.
I'd love to see photos if yours is any different than what is on the website.