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Comment by amenghra

fun fact: the webcrypto api does allow marking a key as non-exportable. So you could imagine deriving the key from the passphrase and having it only exist within the WebCrypto framework.

It is however going to be hard to prevent a malicious active attacker from stealing the passphrase.

parent amenghra 9 years ago

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