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From: ori@eigenstate.org
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Solo factotum
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2025 11:26:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D29C66324B7AF4A4E48EAD6AF38A9B3F@eigenstate.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8716F627-36EE-445A-B4B4-754C9136596E@quintile.net>

Quoth Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net>:
> how would the proposed device improve on this? - honest question.

By design, keys never leave factotum; A kernel exploit could
break that guarantee. Separate hardware means the factotum
wouldn't share a kernel with possibly compromised or hostile
software.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-12-31 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-12-29 10:57 [9fans] Solo factotum (was: Enterable namespaces: /proc/pid/$ns/srv) David Arroyo
2025-12-29 14:40 ` sirjofri via 9fans
2025-12-30  6:28   ` David Arroyo
2025-12-30 17:56     ` [9fans] Solo factotum Dworkin Muller
2025-12-30 21:37       ` sirjofri via 9fans
2025-12-30 23:29         ` ori
2025-12-31  4:24           ` Steve Simon
2025-12-31  5:21             ` David Arroyo
2025-12-31 17:31               ` ori
2025-12-31 21:47                 ` Steve Simon
2025-12-31  9:40             ` sirjofri via 9fans
2025-12-31 16:26             ` ori [this message]
2025-12-31  8:51           ` Skip Tavakkolian
2025-12-29 15:32 ` [9fans] Solo factotum (was: Enterable namespaces: /proc/pid/$ns/srv) Shawn Rutledge

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