On Tue, 6 Nov 2012 10:24, cor...@debian.org said: > For gnupg2 maintainers: this is about an issue with gnupg2 not beeing > able to decrypt stuff encrypted for 4096b keys on OpenPGP smartcards.
If you look at the back of the cards you will notice a limit of 3072 ;-). To stop people complaining about it I eventually lifted this limit in 2.1.0beta3 (2011-12-20): * Allow generation of card keys up to 4096 bit. I never confirmed that encryption will work. In fact, the major problem we have with keys > 2048 ist that some readers (or on Windows their drivers) seem not to work correctly related to the BWT extension request; or due to libusb problems. > As it adds a --more argument to one command, but still support the > previous usages I guess it shouldn't break other applications. And This changes the API of scdaemon and should thus not be applied without checking back with me. I am working on a similar solution for master but I have currently problems to generate any card key (maybe libusb problem on Sid). I am looking into the latter right now. Stay tuned. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
