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> What's to stop someone from extracting and restoring the private key? Isn't the whole point of these chips that you can't extract the private key, so that if
by josephcsible 3y ago
> What's to stop someone from extracting and restoring the private key?
Isn't the whole point of these chips that you can't extract the private key, so that if it gets wiped, it's definitely gone forever?
> Sure, then how about addressing that issue rather than proposing to outlaw an entire mechanism entirely? We have a lot of things that can be misused, but (generally) only in extreme cases do we outlaw the tech itself. More usually, we have laws targeting the misuse of the tech.
But this particular technology doesn't seem to have any legitimate uses.
- JohnFen 3y ago> Isn't the whole point of these chips that you can't extract the private key, so that if it gets wiped, it's definitely gone forever? I don't think these chips include TPM. But if that's the case, wouldn't you object to that on the same grounds that you object to efuses? > But this particular technology doesn't seem to have any legitimate uses. Myself and at least one other commenter has mentioned a few legitimate uses.
- josephcsible 3y ago> I don't think these chips include TPM. But if that's the case, wouldn't you object to that on the same grounds that you object to efuses? No, because it would let you generate a new key instead of remaining keyless forever.