Re:Hacking the most popular cryptocurrency hardware wallets ...
by social_quotient on Friday December 28, 2018 @09:24AM
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HSM = hardware security module https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_security_module
The reason for that is that such devices are primarily designed to move the key materialoutside of the effectively allways online client device and thus the typical HSM-style threat models are outside of the design scope.
This is somewhat understandable because designing truly secure HSM is borderline impossible and certainly not economically meaningful for most of the target market.