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UltraSane 38 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist

The private key would be generated and stored on the most secure hardware security modules like how AWS stores many billions of symetric and asymmetric keys.

sneak 36 days ago [–]

ok, then how do users authenticate to those modules? what happens when they lose their authentication credentials?

or do you mean HSMs in the possession of the user? what happens when they lose it, or the device is stolen?

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