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Comment by lmm

> Security-conscious web application developers don't want TLS keys in their application processes.

If your application is in a non-memory-safe language, sure (but why would you do that?). Otherwise I would think the risk is outweighed by the value of having your connections encrypted end-to-end. If your application process gets fully compromised then an attacker already controls it, by definition, so (given that modern TLS has perfect forward secrecy) I don't think you really gain anything by keeping the keys confidential at that point.

parent lmm 1 year ago

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