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Re:Secretive – macOS native app to store SSH keys in the Sec... by john_alan on Sunday June 28, 2020 @01:01AM (#23666849)
Cool but the enclave only supports the secp256r1 curve, whose coefficients are NSA chosen.
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Re:Secretive – macOS native app to store SSH keys in the Sec... by ashildr on Sunday June 28, 2020 @09:20AM (#23668522)
While I don‘t think that this is relevant for my personal thread scenarios, I think that this is unfortunate at least and Apple should change it with new hardware.
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Re:Secretive – macOS native app to store SSH keys in the Sec... by john_alan on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @02:12AM (#23687116)
Ya problem is it’s all NIST “approved” and US companies love that because it means the government is happy to use their products.
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