[PATCH] gpg: enable key-to-card upload for cert-only keys

Dominik Heidler dominik at heidler.eu
Sat Feb 1 15:27:13 CET 2014


Am 01.02.2014 15:14, schrieb NIIBE Yutaka:
> Currently, OpenPGP card specification doesn't fit the use case of (*)
> very well, if a person wants to import both of primary key (for
> signing only) and signing only subkey.  It defines only a single key,
> which is used to both purposes.
> 
> It would be good if OpenPGP card specification allows an optional
> signing key, so that it could support the use case of (*).  Then,
> your patch will fully make sense.

Yes - that's the only downside: I need the C-Key smartcard to sign other
users keys. But I'm not signing that often, so that's ok for me.




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