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Protect private key in exported identity #158

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roeslpa opened this issue Mar 4, 2016 · 0 comments
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Protect private key in exported identity #158

roeslpa opened this issue Mar 4, 2016 · 0 comments

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roeslpa commented Mar 4, 2016

Even if we assume the device to be secure by definition, the exported identity could be sent from device 1 to device 2 via insecure channel. If the user does not use a secure channel, the private key is disclosed. Hence the private key should be encrypted with a key derived from a password during the export and decrypted during the import (as it is usually done with private keys).

@roeslpa roeslpa added this to the POST BETA milestone Mar 4, 2016
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