Ret on Nostr: Am I misunderstanding all this crypto shit? I thought the point of an HSM was that ...
Am I misunderstanding all this crypto shit? I thought the point of an HSM was that the keys it generates don’t leave it? They stay in an enclave which is tamper-protected and secure. You give the HSM material to sign/encrypt and it does that internally. Is that not how this stuff works?!
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2026-10-20 18:42:32 UTCEvent JSON
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