---
id: 3952
title: "Breaking Fortinet Firmware Encryption"
source_domain: bishopfox.com
source_url: "https://bishopfox.com/blog/breaking-fortinet-firmware-encryption"
published_at: "2023-08-02T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["reverse-engineering", "firmware", "security-research", "encryption", "fortinet", "fortigate"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/3952"
lang: en
---

# Breaking Fortinet Firmware Encryption

## Summary

Bishop Fox explains how it reverse engineered Fortinet's firmware image encryption—most bare-metal images ship encrypted—to enable its FortiGate version-comparison research.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** bishopfox.com
- **Published:** 2023-08-02T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://bishopfox.com/blog/breaking-fortinet-firmware-encryption
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/3952