Michael Bienia wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> does signing with the OpenPGP card only work with SHA1 as digest-algo?
> 
> With SHA1 and RIPEMD160 gpg asks for the PIN but only SHA1 generates a
> working signature. Trying RIPEMD160 I get:
> | gpg: checking created signature failed: bad signature
> | gpg: signing failed: bad signature
> | gpg: signing failed: bad signature
> 

>From the basiccard website I read that it only supports sha-1, so this
might be true. I noticed the same just recently.

It might be nice to have some sort of hybrid setup... half the signature
generated on card half on the host, but that would probably have a huge
impact on both the openpgp smartcard protocal and gnupg and the software
on the card.

> Michael
> 
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