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This is the fundamental paradox of hardware secured keys. Basic ones generate the private key inside and never let it be exported. This allows you to be very sure it won't ever leak but also doesn't let you back it up. Higher end Hardware Security Modules allow the private key to be exported but only when encrypted with the valid public key of a destination HSM.


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