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MTLS with keys never leaving the TPM

Details

External ID
49062316
Source
HN
Company
—
Product
MTLS with keys never leaving the TPM
Website domain
github.com
Launched
July 26, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
5
Upvotes percentile
0.1081242532855436
Tags
—
Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Enrichment

Theme
custom keyboards and input controllers
Vertical
Security
Function
Dev tools
Audience
Developer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
mtls key management with tpm
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Partial Building a client tool that configures mutual TLS is straightforward, but integrating directly with TPM 2.0 cryptographic primitives without leaking private keys requires specialized security systems engineering.

What it would actually take: The system requires interacting with the TPM2 TSS (TCG Software Stack) via libraries like `tpm2-tss` or Go's `go-tpm` to generate non-exportable private keys in NVRAM. It must bind to TLS client libraries (OpenSSL engine/provider, Rustls, or Go `crypto.Signer`) to perform PKCS#11 or TPM-based digital signatures for the TLS handshake without ever exposing the private key to host user memory.

Discussion

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Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 35 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #32 of 36 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 231 days after the earliest competitor.

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