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by jeffmcjunkin 1771 days ago
Smart cards are essentially a big Secure Enclave themselves.

The whole point of a smart card (same as a military CAC, and almost the same as a TPM chip on computers) is to sign operations using the private key, without allowing export of that private key. They're still made of atoms, like all objects, and susceptible to physical key extraction attacks.