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What is "HSM" in this context?

Among probable hits, "hierarchical storage management" and "hardware security module".



Hardware Security Module, a device that stores a private key in a way that cannot be easily extracted. When your application needs to decrypt something, it sends a request over the network to the HSM, which decrypts it and returns the plaintext.


Hardware security module.




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