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Re:Amazon Starts Email Service for Companies by superuser2 on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @11:18PM (#8964308)
>it should be impossible for them (or for nCipher) to do so.

Why does it matter? They can certainly be compelled to use the HSM to decrypt data, even if they can't extract keys.

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Re:Amazon Starts Email Service for Companies by geekbeast on Thursday January 29, 2015 @01:38AM (#8964686)
This.

If you aren't doing client-side encryption and keeping the keys private, the server has access one way or another.

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