[ale] GPG Smartcards

Michael B. Trausch mike at trausch.us
Thu Dec 1 11:58:19 EST 2011


On 12/01/2011 10:57 AM, David Tomaschik wrote:
> The GPF crypto-stick asserts that it supports "all features" of the
> OpenPGP card version 2, which supports 3 subkeys, each up to 3072 bits
> in length.  The keys are not independent keys, just subkeys (one of
> which may be the main key).  Looking at the information on it, it
> looks like it uses the same smart card chip that the OpenPGP card
> uses, just without the contact pads and card form factor.
> 
> Does that help?  I haven't used it myself, obviously.

That does... it makes that otherwise small and convenient package not
fit me terribly well.  :-)

So I guess I'll be going with two cards and the reader, which I guess is
a few fractions of a € less expensive anyway.

	--- Mike

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