Tag: cryptography

Galileo OSNMA (Open Service Navigation Message Authentication) is a service in the Galileo GNSS that allows receivers to authenticate cryptographically the navigation data transmitted in the Open Service signal. This is one of the mechanisms to avoid spoofing that are being deployed in Galileo. Currently, OSNMA is in its Public Observation Test Phase. Two years ago I presented a Rust library called galileo-osnma that implements OSNMA and includes some demo software for a small microcontroller, and also a PC CLI application. Since then, some breaking changes have happened in the format of the OSNMA signal-in-space, which have required updates in galileo-osnma. I have also implemented some new features. This post is an update about the current status of my galileo-osnma library and the OSNMA test phase.

Galileo OSNMA (Open Service Navigation Message Authentication) is a protocol that will allow Galileo GNSS receivers to authenticate cryptographically the navigation data that is broadcast by Galileo satellites. The system is currently in a public test phase and according to the roadmap it will begin the initial service in 2023.

This month I have spent some time working in a new Rust library that implements the receiver-side processing of OSNMA. The library is called galileo-osnma. Although there are still some features that are not implemented, and some other future ideas that I have for this library, it has already reached a point where I feel it can be released and used by others. In its present state it is already able to perform all the steps that are needed to check all the OSNMA authentication data that is currently being transmitted by the satellites during the test phase. The library is licensed under a permissive open source license (Apache + MIT, which is common in the Rust ecosystem).