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?
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
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
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Werner Koch w...@gnupg.org wrote:
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
On 8/23/11 12:43 PM, David Tomaschik wrote:
So even a 4-digit PIN would ensure a less than 1% chance of guessing
the PIN. (Assuming that the user does not select obvious pins like
birthdates, anniversaries, etc.) At 8 digits, the probability becomes
something like 6*10^-8, if I do the
