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Re:Show HN: SeKey: An SSH Agent for OS X, Using Secure Encla... by timdorr on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @04:38PM (#15856273)
It's a design detail. You can't have a "secure enclave" if it accepts external private keys.

That's also why it only generates one kind of key. It's a black box that spits out public keys.

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Re:Show HN: SeKey: An SSH Agent for OS X, Using Secure Encla... by viraptor on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @04:57PM (#15856406)
Secure enclave is just Apple's name for a secure cryptoprocessor implementation. Some other implementations are happy to accept your private key generated outside of the system.
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