scd: ccid-driver improvement

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Thu Mar 14 12:46:38 CET 2013


On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:01, gniibe at fsij.org said:

> As we discussed in 2012, this is a kind of ad hoc change; It works for
> now, but it won't work for 8192-bit key.  It would be good to support

We will never see such keys on smart cards.  All standards are switching
to ECC because such long RSA keys woul require too much cpu power on the
the card and increase the amount of I/O.

> My opinion is that full support of extended APDU exchange level
> communication is still not worth now.  This change is OK for me.

I concur.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

-- 
Die Gedanken sind frei.  Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.




More information about the Gnupg-devel mailing list