Patches gpg-agent + scute for ssl/tls auth using opengpg card with 2048 rsa key

2014-08-31 Thread Oliver Winker
Hello, The two patches below against gpg-agent (gnupg2-2.0.26) [1] and scute-1.4.0 [2] allow ssl/tls auth using an opengpg card with 2048 rsa key. The patch against gpg-agent basically allow a hash length of 51 bytes for signing. And the patch against scute increases a string buffer to be able

Re: Crypto Stick vs Smart Card Reader /w Pin Pad

2014-08-31 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 19:08, free10...@gmail.com said: > I would say that they are both good tools for separating the secret > keys from the computer. I have both kinds. The great thing about the > Crypto Stick is that it combines the card reader with the OpenPGP card > in one discrete package and

Re: Difference between clearsign and detached signatures?

2014-08-31 Thread TJ
On 31/08/14 01:47, Ingo Klöcker wrote: On Saturday 30 August 2014 23:11:17 TJ wrote: On 30/08/14 22:20, Ingo Klöcker wrote:> I strongly suggest that you have a look at using some Python binding for gpgme instead of messing around with gpg. gpgme is _the_ library for using GnuPG in other program

gnupg privicy assistant - card manager.

2014-08-31 Thread Paul Lewis
I hope this is the correct list to raise this issue at? The GNU Privicy assistant seems to be working fine, when I start it I can see a list of my keys. I'd like to use the card manager function, but whenever I invoke it the application returns the error "Error accessing the card", and the st

Smart Card 4096 Key Question

2014-08-31 Thread Jonathan Brown
Can an OpenPGP 2.0 smart card hold 3 4096 keys at the same-time? Additionally could an OpenPGP 2.0 Smart card hold 4 4096 keys as well? This is assuming you are using a GPG version that supports this. Sorry I couldnt find this answer online. ___ Gnupg-us

Re: Smart Card 4096 Key Question

2014-08-31 Thread Tristan Santore
On 31/08/14 18:31, Jonathan Brown wrote: > Can an OpenPGP 2.0 smart card hold 3 4096 keys at the same-time? > Additionally could an OpenPGP 2.0 Smart card hold 4 4096 keys as well? > > This is assuming you are using a GPG version that supports this. Sorry > I couldnt find this answer online. > > >

Re: Smart Card 4096 Key Question

2014-08-31 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 23:27, tristan.sant...@internexusconnect.net said: > Yes the card can have a 4096bit Auth, Sign and Encryption key. You have Correct. > to generate them on a machine though, not on card. The cards generate them just fine. Note that this is only true for the ZeitControl as c

Re: Difference between clearsign and detached signatures?

2014-08-31 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 18:03, gn...@iam.tj said: > to see how to do is set the keyring file to use. There doesn't appear to be > any function that provides for setting an existing key ring; the best I could > find is gpgme_op_import_keys() which talks about: The keyring is an internal propery of Gnu

Re: gnupg privicy assistant - card manager.

2014-08-31 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 16:00, paul.le...@quadensemble.com said: > I'd like to use the card manager function, but whenever I invoke it the > application returns the error "Error accessing the card", and the > status bar reports "Checking for card .. " I have actually thank you for raising this issu