Thank you guys for your responses. I ended up remembering the bootloader size issue after I posted this and fixed the issue. Both captures are using putty. The corrupted looking output was after I flashed the partition table. Which ended up partially writing over the bootloader so that might have be...

I'm trying to enable reflashable secure boot for some development devices. Using esp-idf and esp32 arduino as component. Steps I have taken following the secure boot documentation. 1. In menuconfig: Enable hardware secure boot in bootloader - reflashable - sign binaries during build 2. espsecure.py ...