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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Don't the keys have to be in plaintext at some point so they can be used

[–] Sethayy 5 points 4 months ago

Yeah but they don't have to be visible to every process the user runs, my Minecraft mods really don't need access to my encryption keys

[–] sun_is_ra 3 points 4 months ago

They could at least allow for setting paaword. Then your keys are encrypted with that password