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Comment by chmod775

10 days ago

At the end of the day someone could always grab this code, remove the verification step, and distribute that as a new app.

That "someone" doesn't understand how hardware backed platform attestation works.

The wikipedia page does a pretty good job at explaining it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing

  • Yes, they do. There's nothing in the spec this app implements that actually requires that step. The app just chooses to do it in this case.

    Or rather is planning to. Right now it doesn't even have that integrity check, despite fully implementing the verification flow.