Is anyone here using their hardware TPM chips for credentials?

j4k3@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml – 95 points –

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.

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You can use insecure boot and not enter the password. It can't make stuff meaningfully more secure though, it just plain doesn't add any protection against evil maid.

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