Wiktor Kwapisiewicz wrote: > There is one feature of smartcards that's hard to reproduce otherwise: > once you pull the smartcard out of the port the attacker can't use it. > > (...)
Thanks, that’s a good point! So if one’s concern is signing or authentication, this is indeed useful. However, if one’s concern is protecting encrypted secrets that are regularly accessed (like passwords) and can be thus stolen, there seems to be less of a gain.
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