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mritzmann commented on Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS   gist.github.com/arianvp/5... · Posted by u/arianvanp
jedberg · a month ago
If I understand correctly, this means you can't back up the private key, correct? It's in the Secure Enclave, so if you lose your laptop, you also lose the key? Since it looks like export only really exports the public key not the private one?

Probably not the worst thing, you most likely have another way to get into the remote machine, or an admin who can reset you, but still feels like a hole.

Or am I missing something?

ps. It amuses me that my Mac won't let me type Secure Enclave without automatically capitalizing it.

Edit: I understand good security is having multiple keys, I was simply asking if this one can be backed up. OP answered below and is updating their webpage accordingly.

mritzmann · a month ago
> If I understand correctly, this means you can't back up the private key, correct? It's in the Secure Enclave, so if you lose your laptop, you also lose the key?

In a business environment, that's what you want. The key is then burned, and you ask your coworkers (who still have access) to remove the old key and store your new one on the servers.

mritzmann commented on Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection   theregister.com/2025/05/1... · Posted by u/brodo
mritzmann · 7 months ago
Background:

> Other apps were not allowed to use this permission at all, once it was introduced in 2022. I could convince them back then, that we need this. But nowadays they are more strict on it and thus we needed to remove this permission. Thus is, why it feels now like a regression / problem in UX, while it was only an exception that they allowed it for ~2 years.

https://github.com/nextcloud/android/issues/14135#issuecomme...

mritzmann commented on Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo   github.com/mozilla-firefo... · Posted by u/thefilmore
mritzmann · 7 months ago
What is the source of “Firefox Moves to GitHub”? It could be a mirror, just like Linux also has an mirror on GitHub.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux

// EDIT: Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43970574

mritzmann commented on Bug hunting in Btrfs   tavianator.com/2024/btrfs... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Daunk · 2 years ago
I recently tried (for the first time) Btrfs on my low-end laptop (no snapshots), and I was surprised to see that the laptop ran even worse than it usually does! Turns out there was something like a "btrfs-cleaner" (or similar) running in the background, eating up almost all the CPU at all time. After about 2 days I jumped over to ext4 and everything ran just fine.
mritzmann · 2 years ago
Had a similar problem but can't remember the Btrfs process. Anyway, after I switched off Btrfs quotas, everything was fine.
mritzmann commented on Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android   beeper.com/... · Posted by u/erohead
nolongerthere · 2 years ago
Does this still work? that repository appears to be abandoned.
mritzmann · 2 years ago
> that repository appears to be abandoned

The last commit and release is from october.

u/mritzmann

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