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“Okay, so not so secret after all. Interesting. But the key is secret.”
“Where do you keep the key?”
“I built a Secure Enclave.”
“You built a what?”
“It’s like the secure part of a microchip that holds its secrets, but it’s a service only I can talk to, hidden away only I know where. I whisper my secrets to it, then forget them, and it whispers them back to me if I need them.”
“What’s that running on?”
“The original service ran on a commercial cloud provider, but I actually don’t remember where the service runs now. I’d have to ask it.”
“How long has this ‘secure enclave’ been running?”
“Three years, eleven days, two hours, and eighteen seconds.”