OpenPGP Card

Alphax alphasigmax at gmail.com
Wed Sep 7 12:32:56 CEST 2005


Werner Koch wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 19:35:34 +0200, Zeljko Vrba said:
> 
> 
>>As Alon did remark earlier, the general movement in the industry is
>>towards multi-purpose smart-cards. OpenPGP card currently doesn't fall
>>into this category.
> 
> 
> Not true.  The OpenPGP card specification is a card application and
> you may put as many other applications on a card as you like and the
> EEPROM allows to.  With 6k (and even less possible) it is actually a
> pretty small application.
> 

Um... slightly OT, but...

1. What's the standard size of the EEPROM on a smartcard suitable for
OpenPGP?

2. What else could you fit on such a card?

3. Is it possible to have multiple things on a smartcard without them
conflicting?

Thanks,

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