#Hardware keys

For a key that is genuinely unreadable rather than merely gated, move it into hardware. On a Mac there is nothing to buy or install:

hush secure --hardware        # makes a key in the Secure Enclave, adds it as you
hush team rm <your-old-name>  # then retire the software key, and commit

The key is made inside the Secure Enclave and never leaves it; every read asks for your fingerprint, enforced by the enclave rather than by hush. Each Mac is its own member (enclave in hush team ls), so a stolen laptop is one hush team rm. hush id --enclave makes the key without adding it anywhere, for a teammate to add you.

For a YubiKey, a TPM, or anything else with an age plugin, hush bridges to age. It does not implement age's plugin protocol — it shells out to age, which drives whichever plugin owns the recipient. So hush contains zero hardware integrations and supports all of them:

brew install age age-plugin-yubikey     # or age-plugin-se, age-plugin-tpm
hush age                                # check the bridge
hush team add ana age1yubikey1q2w3e…    # a hardware-backed teammate

A vault mixes both kinds of member freely:

acme  DEK generation 2
  ana   member  age18lf9g367pxtth0c0…  age  ✓
  sam   admin   hush_pk_1xMUlHhmUKj0…  key  ✓

Unwrapping the vault key then requires touching the YubiKey, or a fingerprint for the Secure Enclave — enforced by the hardware, not by a prompt. age is optional; you only need it if you want this.

docs/BIOMETRY.md has the full tiering, and how the enclave key works without an Apple Developer ID.