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1. it is not trivial to produce
2. there could be vulnerabilities in the crypto implementation (like that never happens!)
3. there could be buffer overflow attacks that let the malware bypass the crypto
4. The server itself could be compromised into sending a correct certificate encoded malware
5. How are you going to audit all that?
A physical switch, on the other hand, is much easier to audit, and an attacker would need physical control of device to compromise it.
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1. it is not trivial to produce
2. there could be vulnerabilities in the crypto implementation (like that never happens!)
3. there could be buffer overflow attacks that let the malware bypass the crypto
4. The server itself could be compromised into sending a correct certificate encoded malware
5. How are you going to audit all that?
A physical switch, on the other hand, is much easier to audit, and an attacker would need physical control of device to compromise it.