Re: Retrieving public key from smartcard

2006-03-31 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 00:45:10 +0200 (MEST), saschainlondon said: Isn't it possible to create the public key again with the card? (Assume I didn't send the public key to anywhere/anyone and have only my smartcard!) No. For example my key is a bit larger than 64k and that is far too much to

Re: Retrieving public key from smartcard

2006-03-30 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:18:40 +0200 (MEST), saschainlondon said: How is it possible to retrieve the public key from the card and set up GnuPG to work with this card that is already set up (I do not want to create a new key pair!) The public key is not on the card due to space issue. You

Re: Retrieving public key from smartcard

2006-03-30 Thread saschainlondon
Thanks for that quick response! The public key is not on the card due to space issue. You should get it from a keyserver or another location. The URL data object on the card is very handy for that. Enter the URL used to get your public key and then run gpg --card-edit and enter the command

Retrieving public key from smartcard

2006-03-29 Thread saschainlondon
Hi everyone, I am using one of these g10code/PPC OpenPGP cards. Works (nearly) perfectly at home (where I created my keypair). Now I would like to use the card with another PC. Unfortunately I have only my OpenPGP card and no copy of my public key. How is it possible to retrieve the public