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ynniv · 3w
the load bearing primitive is a cryptographic attestation from a well-known hardware manufacturer's pubkey: - that one of their chips - running an image with a specific hash - generated a private k...
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If you’re suggesting potential issues with the hardware, we acknowledge that you are trusting the execution environment (hence Trusted Execution Environment). But the assumption is that one of their chips running an image with a specific hash generated a private key using its own entropy that corresponds to the public key which the client encrypts the messages to. 🙃

Except that assumption, our system is as good as it gets. I’d say, better than directly using Tinfoil as you will most likely get the privacy benefits of Cashu. Even if the TEEs are compromised, they at best have a pseudonymous profile of you.
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ynniv · 3w
did a quick dive on tinfoil, and it closes a lot of holes. i'm not certain, but it's much better than i expected (* assuming clients pull attestations, reproduce builds, audit sources, and consider entropy / memory hacks)