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0 pointscausality02y ago0 comments

Right. I stopped using hardware encryption after I forgot the password to my IronKey and had to throw it away.

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That's just a not-friendly HSM. You should be able to reinitialize things, but not extract secrets from them. For example, you can reinitialize Yubikey's "key slots", without remembering the PIN.

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0 pointscausality02y ago0 comments

Right. I stopped using hardware encryption after I forgot the password to my IronKey and had to throw it away.

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yencabulator2y ago

That's just a not-friendly HSM. You should be able to reinitialize things, but not extract secrets from them. For example, you can reinitialize Yubikey's "key slots", without remembering the PIN.

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