RSA Registers

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Registers

Old3DS Name Address Width Used by
Yes RSA_CNT 0x1000B000 0x04
Yes RSA_SLOT0 0x1000B100 0x10
Yes RSA_SLOT1 0x1000B110 0x10
Yes RSA_SLOT2 0x1000B120 0x10
Yes RSA_SLOT3 0x1000B130 0x10
Yes RSA_EXPFIFO 0x1000B200 0x04
Yes RSA_MOD 0x1000B400 0x100
Yes RSA_TXT 0x1000B800 0x100

RSA_CNT

Bit Description
0 Start (1=Enable/Busy, 0=Idle)
1 ?
4-7 Keyslot (Bit6-7 don't actually affect the keyslot)
8 Endianness (1=Little endian, 0=Big endian)
9 Word order (1=Normal order, 0=Reversed order)

RSA_SLOT

Start Width Description
0x0 0x4 REG_RSASLOTCNT
0x4 0x4 REG_RSASLOTSIZE
0x8 0x4 ?
0xC 0x4 ?

RSA_SLOTCNT

Bits Description
0 Key status (1=Key has been set, 0=Key has not been set yet)
1 Key write-protect, this bit is RW. (0 = no protection, 1 = protected)
30-2 ?
31 ?

Before writing RSA_EXPFIFO/RSA_MOD, bit0 here should be cleared when bit31 is already clear. Otherwise, the ARM9 will hang when attempting to write to RSA_EXPFIFO.

RSA_SLOTSIZE

This contains the RSA size for this slot, in words. Normally this is 0x40 for RSA-2048.

RSA_EXPFIFO

The 0x100-byte private or public exponent is written to this write-only FIFO.

REG_RSAMOD

The RSA key modulus for the selected keyslot can be written here. When writing the RSA modulus, the modulus must align with the end of the register area.

REG_RSATXT

The RSA signature can be written here, and the data read from here is the message. When writing the RSA signature, the signature must be prepended with zeroes until it is a multiple of 8 bytes, and the end of the signature must align with the end of the register area.

The PKCS message padding must be manually checked by software, as hardware will only do raw RSA operations.

Keyslots usage

Keyslot Description
0 Arbitrary
1 CXI access desc (following the exheader)
2-3 Initialized by the ARM9 bootrom, but not used by any of the FIRMs. It's unknown what the ARM9 bootrom uses these for, if anything.