Keyring management with multiple smart cards

2018-12-14 Thread Louis Opter
Hello, I have a certify-only master keypair in an air-gapped machine. I only use that machine to create subkeys and sign other people keys. The subkeys are copied onto smartcards which I use in daily life. Assuming that smartcards aren't indestructible and can be lost I always have a backup

Re: Private Keys on Card Not Loaded

2018-12-14 Thread Dirk Gottschalk via Gnupg-users
Hi. Am Freitag, den 14.12.2018, 13:26 +0200 schrieb Robert Gabriel: > Hi, > > I have created a master key along with a subkey for authenticating > and a subkey for signing. > > I copied the subkeys to my smartcard (Nitrokey Pro 2) using gpg2 -- > edit-key 93DA8C1D and did not enter save

Re: Gnupg-devel Digest, Vol 183, Issue 5

2018-12-14 Thread Kenneth Benson
I was wondering if the pdf is going to be updated anytime soon? It's title page still says it's for version 2.2.7? Also availabale should be available. On 12/14/2018 10:14 AM, gnupg-devel-requ...@gnupg.org wrote: > Subject: > [Announce] GnuPG 2.2.12 released > From: > Werner Koch > Date: >

Blog Post Question

2018-12-14 Thread Jack Foster via Gnupg-users
Hey there, My name is Jack and I saw this post of yours:  https://lists.gt.net/gnupg/users/69568 (password security is so important).  In fact, it inspired me to create a more in-depth version (14 ways to create a secure password!).  https://www.vpngeeks.com/how-to-secure-your-passwords

[Announce] GnuPG 2.2.12 released

2018-12-14 Thread Werner Koch
Hello! We are pleased to announce the availability of a new GnuPG release: version 2.2.12. This is a maintenance release; see below for a list of fixed bugs. About GnuPG === The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is a complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard which is commonly

Private Keys on Card Not Loaded

2018-12-14 Thread Robert Gabriel
Hi, I have created a master key along with a subkey for authenticating and a subkey for signing. I copied the subkeys to my smartcard (Nitrokey Pro 2) using gpg2 --edit-key 93DA8C1D and did not enter save thereafter, but deleted them manually using gpg2 --card-edit. I deleted the master

Re: Smart cards

2018-12-14 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Thu 13/Dec/2018 10:48:52 +0100 Andreas Schwier wrote: > >> I agree that smartphones are not safe, but I am not particularly in favor of >> smartcards, dongles, and security tokens like yubikeys, either. >> >> Any kind of special-purpose cryptographic *hardware* is essentially >>