I’m curious about the possible uses of the hardware Trusted Protection Module for automatic login or transfer encryption. I’m not really looking to solve anything or pry. I’m just curious about the use cases as I’m exploring network attached storage and to a lesser extent self hosting. I see a lot of places where public private keys are generated and wonder why I don’t see people mention generating the public key from TPM where the private key is never accessible at all.

  • @library_napper@monyet.cc
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    811 months ago

    Usually because its not portable. A USB security key costs more than the TPM you already have, but you can make a backup and store it in a safe