• valpackett@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    IIUC Apple syncs them using the most secure way they can, i.e. when you enroll a new device to your account the existing device, the existing device's HSM encrypts keys using the pubkey of the new one's HSM; and for recovery from being left with 0 Apple devices there might be (?) an escrow option that's optional (?)

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      1 year ago

      Cool. I should check it out. I tend to assume that when Apple (or Google) rolled this out that it’s not broken in any obvious way that I would recognize right away.

      But like contactless payments, which I’ve advocated my friends and family switch to, I should read up on why it’s more secure.