How do you use your OpenPGP card ?

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

your primary key should definately go to the Signature Key slot, since
it is used to sign your subkeys, your friends' keys and, unless you have
a dedicated signature subkey, your messages. The Authentication Key slot
is for keys that you use to log in somewhere, for example using Moritz'
libpam-poldi or maybe some kind of ssh daemon.

HTH,
nomeata

Am Sonntag, den 09.01.2005, 19:30 +0100 schrieb Dany Nativel:
> I've been able to generate my primary RSA signing key off-card as well 
> as an encryption RSA key.
> 
> When I execute the "keytocard" command it asks me where I want to store 
> the Primary key :
> 
> (1) Signature Key
> (3) Authentication Key
> 
> I tried both and they work and I wondering what it the best practice out 
> there.
> What's behind the Authentication Key ?
> 
> Dany
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> sec  1024R/48D72CFD  created: 2005-01-09  expires: never
> ssb  1024R/7E360C43  created: 2005-01-09  expires: never
> (1)  NUMBER5
> 
> Command> keytocard
> Really move the primary key? (y/N) y
> gpg: detected reader `GemPC410 0 0'
> Signature key ....: 8422 DA92 7A7F 6BAB 608F  D3AF 6E35 E902 3186 D0DD
> Encryption key....: A1D1 CE23 AAC1 1135 1742  5C0C A953 9748 7FFB 5067
> Authentication key: 7CBB 67EA 4845 9535 4F3A  F188 61A6 A1A2 504D 2B68
> 
> Please select where to store the key:
>    (1) Signature key
>    (3) Authentication key
> Your selection?
> 
> 
> 
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