Re: Subject: openpgp card and basiccard RNG

2014-02-13 Thread Kostantinos Koukopoulos
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Kostantinos Koukopoulos koukopoulos+gnupg-us...@gmail.com wrote: Makes sense, So does anyone know the version of BasicCard used for openpgp cards? Or who to contact with this question? I asked at the distributor ( kernelconcepts.de) and they said they couldn't

Re: Subject: openpgp card and basiccard RNG

2014-02-06 Thread Kostantinos Koukopoulos
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Michael Anders micha...@gmx.de wrote: In my opinion a (good) PRNG seeded properly under user control is no problem. If -as the FAQ seems to tell- it is primed during production, beyond user control, this implies that normal users have to fully trust the

openpgp card and basiccard RNG

2014-02-03 Thread Kostantinos Koukopoulos
Hello, Aparrently the OpenPGP card is based on BasicCard [1] and from the BasicCard FAQ [2] I read: For Enhanced BasicCards, the card has no hardware generator. The Enhanced BasicCards contain a unique manufacturing number which cannot be read from outside the card. The Rnd function uses this