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.

  • penquin@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    It scares me. What if the chip dies? How am I gonna be able to get my stuff? I don’t fully understand how it works, but where is the encryption saved? On the chip itself or somewhere else?

    • °˖✧ ipha ✧˖°@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      What if the chip dies? How am I gonna be able to get my stuff?

      You can have backup keys, but if you don’t have that then your data is gone.

      I don’t fully understand how it works, but where is the encryption saved? On the chip itself or somewhere else?

      Encryption key is stored in the TPM chip.

      • penquin@lemm.ee
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        10 months ago

        Ok this is scary. Lol Unless you have those backup keys then it’s a bit better.