Re: Migrating to Smartcards

2011-08-31 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:58, k...@grant-olson.net said: tried to use two cards with the same key. gpg really wants you to have one card tied to one set of keys per computer. 2.1 will make this much simpler by separating the key material (or the key stub) from the actual keyblock/certificate.

Re: Migrating to Smartcards

2011-08-31 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:49, da...@systemoverlord.com said: No, the OpenPGP v2 card can only handle up to RSA-3072. Presumably OpenPGP v2 card is just a spec; you need to look at the specific implementation which most likely will be the Zeitcontrol card. That card support up to 4096 bits.

Re: Migrating to Smartcards

2011-08-31 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:40, go...@fsfe.org said: AFAIR, 3072 bit keys have to be generated on the card. If you use off-card generation, you are limited to 2048 bits. Really? That would be a bug. In case it really does not work the workaround is to first create a key with 3072 bits on the card

Re: Migrating to Smartcards

2011-08-31 Thread Martin Gollowitzer
* Werner Koch w...@gnupg.org [110831 08:45, mID 877h5uozaa@vigenere.g10code.de]: On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:40, go...@fsfe.org said: AFAIR, 3072 bit keys have to be generated on the card. If you use off-card generation, you are limited to 2048 bits. Really? That would be a bug. I

Re: Migrating to Smartcards

2011-08-31 Thread Patryk Cisek
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:56:02PM +0200, Richard wrote: Thanks for all your help! I just noticed that on my mobile computer (running Mac OS X) I am still stuck with GnuPG 2.0.17 since MacGPG2 has not yet been updated. I will have to wait for an updated package before I can start moving my