standard comment

Robert J. Hansen rjh at sixdemonbag.org
Mon May 25 13:18:05 CEST 2026


> How would this fine community recommend to make a standardized comment 
> about keys being used in unsecure environments.

Your question sounds like "how can I best mitigate the risks of playing 
Russian roulette?" The answer is elegantly simple: don't play Russian 
roulette. There is no way to effectively mitigate the risks once you 
start playing Russian roulette.

If I were to see a warning like the one you mention, I would read it as, 
"I cannot be trusted to properly employ even basic communications 
security. Everything I'm doing is security theater."

Don't expose your unencrypted private certificate to an untrusted 
environment. It really is that simple. If you don't trust your Android 
environment, don't ever allow your unencrypted private certificate to be 
stored on it, even briefly.

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