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Josh · 2w
Complementary is exactly how I see it too. favillakey.io/security is best read for now. Would genuinely value your read on it. The site is a bit simplified, I will add the technical document and firmw...
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I looked at the site overall. I can't really comment on the hardware tooling since I don't know much about that topic, but the amount of detail that's included plus the effort to not over-promise make it seem conscientious and to some extent trustworthy. I guess "trustworthy" may not be the best word because there's an emphasis on auditability, verification, and disclosure, so in a way you're not asking for people's trust, which seems like the right posture.

The combination of secure boot + source code for the firmware + reproducible builds is maybe enough to make the device auditable, at least to the extent to which that's possible at all? Not an expert, but I guess the residual trust is that these things are actually implemented correctly and as promised at the hardware level?

One thing that wasn't completely clear to me from a quick look is what *types* of things can be signed by the device. It seems like it's "Bitcoin transactions" and "Nostr events", and I guess any type of event? Can anything else be signed?
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Josh · 2w
Thanks for taking the time to look over the site. Yes, that's exactly the residual trust. We can make the firmware verifiable, we can't make the silicon verifiable from your chair. We'd rather say that plainly than pretend otherwise. On signing, the firmware signs three things with three separate...