Transmit a strong signal on the main GPS frequency (1575.42 MHz). Receivers get saturated and can't hear the real signal.
Medium Jamming:
Transmit the signal that a receiver would receive at a specific location loudly. GPS receivers will lock onto that signal, and report they are at the location you choose, rather than the real location they're at.
Advanced Jamming:
Pick a target, such as a VIP plane. Calculate the aggregate GPS signal that that plane is receiving right now from all the GPS satellites. Now start transmitting that same signal towards your target (you'll have to transmit ahead of time due to the speed of light delay, but that isn't an issue because GPS signals are fully predictable). Now gradually modify the signal to make the target think they're moving off their desired course, and to make them make corrections. Watch them in realtime, and adjust the signal so they correct in the direction you choose.
This is how Iran stole a drone[1].
Military GPS is encrypted (ie. XORed with a crypto-stream), which makes the signal not predictable ahead of time, which makes the advanced attack impossible. The basic and medium attacks are still possible though.
The format of GPS civilian signal is public and you could just spoof it with any transmitter like a HackRF SDR box. There’s no cryptographic signature to verify or anything. The military code has had cryptographic anti-spoofing from the earliest days.
Or you could just send any super strong signal on the frequency to cover the satellite signal up. That can also work.
londons_explore|3 years ago
Transmit a strong signal on the main GPS frequency (1575.42 MHz). Receivers get saturated and can't hear the real signal.
Medium Jamming:
Transmit the signal that a receiver would receive at a specific location loudly. GPS receivers will lock onto that signal, and report they are at the location you choose, rather than the real location they're at.
Advanced Jamming:
Pick a target, such as a VIP plane. Calculate the aggregate GPS signal that that plane is receiving right now from all the GPS satellites. Now start transmitting that same signal towards your target (you'll have to transmit ahead of time due to the speed of light delay, but that isn't an issue because GPS signals are fully predictable). Now gradually modify the signal to make the target think they're moving off their desired course, and to make them make corrections. Watch them in realtime, and adjust the signal so they correct in the direction you choose.
This is how Iran stole a drone[1].
Military GPS is encrypted (ie. XORed with a crypto-stream), which makes the signal not predictable ahead of time, which makes the advanced attack impossible. The basic and medium attacks are still possible though.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid...
goodpoint|3 years ago
It seems that progress is being made: https://insidegnss.com/what-is-navigation-message-authentica...
tomonl|3 years ago
thewizardofaus|3 years ago
arthur2e5|3 years ago
Or you could just send any super strong signal on the frequency to cover the satellite signal up. That can also work.
dzhiurgis|3 years ago