Re: How do I make the private key on a OpenPGP smartcard non exportable ?

2013-06-22 Thread NdK
Il 22/06/2013 09:35, Heinz Diehl ha scritto: > The whole point with a smartcard is that it's a lot easier to memorize > the PIN than a long and complicated passphrase, and that the private > key can't be exported. If it can, there's no need for a smartcard. I quite disagree, here. A smartcard coul

Re: encrypting to a user, "There is no assurance this key belongs to the named user"

2013-06-22 Thread Michael Tokarev
22.06.2013 11:56, Peter Lebbing wrote: > On 21/06/13 12:34, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> It says "validity: unknown" > > I just thought of something. If for some reason your /own/ key is no longer > trusted, you can make signatures all day but it won't increase validity. > > If you do --edit-key A89

Re: encrypting to a user, "There is no assurance this key belongs to the named user"

2013-06-22 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 21/06/13 12:34, Michael Tokarev wrote: > It says "validity: unknown" I just thought of something. If for some reason your /own/ key is no longer trusted, you can make signatures all day but it won't increase validity. If you do --edit-key A8983CE7, what does its trust say? Your own keys shoul

Re: How do I make the private key on a OpenPGP smartcard non exportable ?

2013-06-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 20.06.2013, Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote: > Try the backup from GPA's menu. I doubt you will get anything > that can be exported. If you get a backupg.gpg (or similar), then try > importing your secret keys onto a second system with GPGWIN installed. The thing is, if there's a command to export