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@filippo posting through the HSM adventures

@filippo it is impossible

@filippo Worst absurdity are network-attached HSMs.

@filippo

sorry to be so ignorant but what is a HSM?

is it a machine dedicated to doing cryptography?

@filippo trusted hardware, the refuge of insoluble problems https://chaos.social/@gsuberland/112341253188262230

@rzeta0 @filippo
Hardware Security Module.
Box that does cryptography and keeps keys inside a box. If anyone in the world can use it for cryptography, it doesn't really make the keys more secure. If you need a key to prove you're a person allowed to use the box, you have to keep that key safe outside the box.
And if you ask the box to sign things you didn't understand, none of it helps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_security_module

@rzeta0 @filippo A Hardware Security Module is a device that holds cryptographic keys and performs operations using them. Sort of like a super-smartcard?