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[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 points 45 minutes ago

Yeah, this has actually been a known thing for a while. The government has been sneakily getting their hand into NIST standards and trying to ensure they have back doors in the commonly used "best practices".

So as a result for instance, encryption based on pseudo random numbers generated with hashing algorithms are actually safer that these theoretically "actually random" numbers generated in dedicated security modules in hardware.

[-] WormFood@lemmy.world 38 points 5 hours ago

Trusted computing was never about security, it's a way to take ownership of computers away from users and give it to computer manufacturers and Microsoft. It's also not a good security model.

[-] Laser@feddit.org 5 points 2 hours ago
  1. The spec allows changing keys by the user as far as I know
  2. I'm unaware of a proposal of a better concept that stops attacks at this layer
[-] audaxdreik@pawb.social 10 points 5 hours ago
[-] sundray@lemmus.org 31 points 10 hours ago
[-] Pennywise@quokk.au 13 points 9 hours ago

Requires local access with administrative rights.

I'll sleep soundly.

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 8 points 8 hours ago

Well that’s OK; we recently discovered that things like passkeys usually aren’t using the TPM anymore anyway. Most stuff stored in there can be routed around via tokens stored on main storage.

this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2026
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