Le 2015/09/30 16:10 +0200, Peter Lebbing a écrit: > Yes. I have no experience in highly available services, let alone GnuPG in > one. > I'm just an enthousiast. I don't know if an OpenPGP Card is suitable (yet?) > for > situations where it is critical it always works. Since I upgraded to 2.1 on my > laptop, I sometimes encounter issues right after plugging in my USB smartcard > reader, which I solve by replugging. It could be that it's all rock solid when > you always have it plugged in, or it could be that it sometimes stumbles and > requires maintenance. That situation is not critical in personal use. "Have > you > tried turning it off and on again?". In your case, it might very well be > critical. > > Like with a smartcard or RFID for access control. If the door doesn't open, > you > just try again. It's not a major issue if sometimes the card doesn't work on > first use, and in practice, they don't always work on first use. Just watch > out > you don't run into the door because you expected it to open. Been there, done > that :). > Ah, yes, I'm well aware of that :) There are contingencies in case of failure, of course. It's repeated, multiple failures that are to be avoided, anything that can't be documented.
Also, just to be clear: the super-expensive bricks I mentioned, I've not said they're in any way more reliable. They're not. Full of bugs, they are. Eg, our current ones, the network interface has to be forced at 10 Mbps/HD when they're connected to certain models of Cisco switches. Known issue, no fix. > You could be right, I don't know. I think it would certainly be useful if > there > was something in between. There's got to be a market now. The current PCI-DSS requirements just beg for it. Laurent _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
