On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:12, da...@systemoverlord.com said: > Would it be reasonable to say that you may use a significantly smaller > PIN for your smartcard than would be required of a passphrase, since > the smartcard locks itself after 3 tries?
Yes. It is up to 6 tries because an attacker may also try to open the card using the admin PIN. > Since I don't use a reader with a pinpad, I must type my PIN in, and > thus have about 8 alpha-numeric characters for my regular PIN. (The Better use only digits - if you need to use a keypad you can't do that instantly. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users