On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 09:18:13AM -0500, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > > A smartcard is very convenient as far as it's a multi application > > device, so you can store much other info apart from GnuPG keys, > > i.e. Mozilla passwords or such. > > ... I'm sorry, I'm scratching my head over here trying to figure out how > a flash drive doesn't also share these properties. In fact, given the > limited space available on a smartcard, the limited application support > for them, etc., it seems flash drives are the clear winner in this context.
You can't read a private key from the smartcard, but you can read it from the flashdrive. SC is a crypto processor + storage, flashdrive only storage. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
