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Flashing tools for VW AG control units over UDS. Compression, encryption, RSA bypass, and checksums are supported for Simos18.1/6/10, DQ250-MQB, DQ381-MQB, and Haldex4Motion-Gen5-MQB.

9 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 8 comments · first 2021-07-28 · latest 2026-01-17

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  1. …companies are having suicidally noisy marketing. Furthermore one of HN users has this repo up https://github.com/bri3d/VW_Flash It is doing what chip tunning companies are doing but in less polished package. If it is a crime, why is it…
    comment by general1465 · 2026-01-17 · in Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland
  2. …against update/re-flash payloads (I've done extensive research on these on VW Continental ECUs - https://github.com/bri3d/VW_Flash ) and an even better and more obvious protection: * The ECU application software won't descend into the…
    comment by bri3d · 2023-04-05 · in CAN Injection: Keyless car theft
  3. …free time, so I'm trying to engage more contributors in side projects, * Automotive ECU tooling, https://github.com/bri3d/VW_Flash * DJI FPV forward/reverse/all sorts engineering, https://github.com/fpv-wtf I've been working a lot with…
    comment by bri3d · 2023-01-02 · in Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
  4. …I split my time outside of the day job and my other hobbies and obligations between a few projects: https://github.com/bri3d/VW_Flash - Flashing tools for select control modules in VW MQB and now PQ35 platform cars. This week I'm working…
    comment by bri3d · 2022-10-19 · in Ask HN: What not-profit-seeking project are you tinkering with this week?
  5. …in Flash memory, like https://github.com/jglim/UnsignedFlash * State machine mistakes, like https://github.com/bri3d/VW_Flash/blob/master/docs/docs.md - allowing Flash to be written again after it was already written, without an erase…
    comment by bri3d · 2022-08-13 · in I hacked my car
  6. …encryption (although there are also fixed-key XOR schemes and custom stuff used like this: https://github.com/bri3d/VW_Flash/blob/master/lib/decryptdsg... ). The keys and even IV are usually fixed across a "model line" of ECUs, so once a…
    comment by bri3d · 2022-01-03 · in Hacking a VW Golf Power Steering ECU
  7. …even if all encryption/flashing steps have been reverse engineered. Some interesting reading: https://github.com/bri3d/VW_Flash/blob/master/docs/docs.md https://github.com/jglim/UnsignedFlash
    comment by pd0wm · 2022-01-03 · in Hacking a VW Golf Power Steering ECU
  8. I have been reverse engineering automotive ECUs for a while now - https://github.com/bri3d/VW_Flash . It's a nice change from my day job in enterprise engineering management, and I've met some fun people and taught several folks a lot of…
    comment by bri3d · 2021-11-02 · in Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)
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    Exploit Chains in the Simos18 Engine Control Unit
    story by bri3d · 2021-07-28 · 0 comments