On 16/02/2011 21:59, Martin Paljak wrote:

>>> I would not date to suggest turning<1024 key support off (which is the 
>>> recommendation by several organizations) but giving a nice fat warning to 
>>> the user when creating keys (not importing!) below 1024 (or 1024 keys when 
>>> the card claims support for 2048) bits.
>> That could be done for every key size less than the maximum handled by
>> the card. This way the user is encouraged to use the maximum available
>> security, and fall back to less secure keys only if he needs to.
> :)
>
> Nice one! Can you please file it as a wish list ticket with a link to this 
> thread as well, so that it won't slip through the cracks? (added a note about 
> list thread links to ReportingBugs [1] page as well)
Ticket 331 created.

> Thanks for your input, if all of the things won't get fixed for the next 
> release (0.12.1) then surely in one of the succeeding builds. Which could 
> eventually happen as often as on biweekly basis.
Marked for "someday".

> If you can, please post about your experiments with MyEID profile tweaks as 
> well, so that the default profile could be improved.
Already did that on my site (but only in Italian, for now... I was 
waiting for something "definitive" before translating. You can see it at:
http://www.csshl.net/content/smartcard-conservare-certificati-e-chiavi-ssh
(on a single line). The setting I'm now using is the one in the third 
comment.

BYtE!
_______________________________________________
opensc-devel mailing list
opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org
http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel

Reply via email to