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Comment by coppsilgold

2 hours ago

> A six digit PIN you use to unlock your phone or messaging app doesn't have enough entropy to be secure

The PIN is not usually used for cryptography, it's used to authorize the TEE (secure enclave) to do it for you. It's usually difficult or impractical to get the keys from the TEE.

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