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[ale] GPG Smartcards
- Subject: [ale] GPG Smartcards
- From: mike at trausch.us (Michael B. Trausch)
- Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:58:19 -0500
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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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