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>Put your SSH keys on a USB HSM (Yubikey or Nitrokey) and nobody is ever going to be able to extract the private key.

Except you. To run through a compromised machine... Perhaps I don't quite understand how it works, but I don't see how this setup negates that issue. Once you plug it into the compromised machine and allow access to it with whatever touch-authentication or w/e, I can't imagine you could keep it secret from the attacker on the compromised machine. But maybe it's encrypting the key on the device?



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