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That's not a very strong objection.

Firstly, you can just rotate the key if that happens. It's one software update away.

Secondly, protecting keys isn't that hard. That's what HSMs are for. Not only have no secret keys ever leaked from the NSA as far as I know, not even when insiders turned against them and leaked as much as they could, but this isn't a noteworthy achievement either.



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