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In an ideal world, all smart cards/TPMs/HSMs would have these two properties:

1. Under no circumstances would they ever be sold with any private keys already on them

2. There would be no way to prove or determine after the fact whether a given key was generated internally or imported from an external source

If those two things were true, then you'd still be able to get 100% of the legitimate security benefit of them, but they'd be completely unusable for DRM and other evil things.



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