Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> 2.) I think those are better defaults, you think otherwise.
> what does everyone else think about these changes?
> my take is "doesn't work - ah, the card can't generate an
> rsa key, so I need to turn on this option" won't happen very
> often, because nearly every card can do that. even if so,
> the user might understand this quite well. on the other hand
> "you did what? generate the key on the pc?" is much harder
> to explain - the usability might have worked for the user, but
> explaining the security tradeoff and why it was necessary later
> is a pain.

Agree with you Andreas.


> so right now I'm happy at least we could find and fix a security
> issue, and my plan is only to get some feedback whether that change
> works, write a security advisory, and publish a new release.

I think you're doing good work with OpenSC.


//Peter
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