Re: How secure are smartcards?

2011-07-29 Thread Mike Cardwell
On 29/07/2011 02:45, Jerome Baum wrote: The very purpose of smartcards is to keep secret keys confidential and secure. This is achieved by physical protection, different layers, puzzling structure etc. This makes it very, very difficult to extract the keys. For a state-of-the-art smart card

Re: How secure are smartcards?

2011-07-29 Thread gnupg
On 29/07/2011 06:03, Jay Litwyn wrote: The beauty is that this protection can be provided without the burden for the user to remember a long passphrase, since this is not required to encrypt the keys. You could use random symmetric encryption keys and encrypt them with a short passphrase:

Re: How secure are smartcards?

2011-07-29 Thread Richard
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 02:05, Crypto Stick cryptost...@privacyfoundation.de wrote: For a state-of-the-art smart card like the OpenPGP Card 2, I guess the price tag would be around 100.000 Euros 100.000 as a one-time investment for breaking into an unlimited number of OpenPGP smart cards? If I

Re: How secure are smartcards?

2011-07-29 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:58, rich...@r-selected.de said: 100.000 as a one-time investment for breaking into an unlimited number of OpenPGP smart cards? If I were a government, I would definitely buy Whatever the number is, it is for each break and you have only a certain probability so

Re: Including public key

2011-07-29 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Thursday 28 July 2011 at 4:22:52 PM, in mid:4e317ecc.1060...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca, Jay Litwyn wrote: Do not sign my photo until you see me in person, OK, fair enough. If the key has WoT signatures from people I trust to have such a

Re: Including public key

2011-07-29 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Thursday 28 July 2011 at 7:15:16 PM, in mid:4e31a734.2000...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca, Jay Litwyn wrote: That's why void appears in my public key. Neither PGP 10, nor gpg were going to allow me to leave my given and family names blank;

Re: Including public key

2011-07-29 Thread Jay Litwyn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 2011-07-29 6:03 PM, MFPA wrote: Hi On Thursday 28 July 2011 at 4:22:52 PM, in mid:4e317ecc.1060...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca, Jay Litwyn wrote: Do not sign my photo until you see me in person, OK, fair enough. If the key has WoT signatures from