Identifier of OpenPGPcard

Kristian Fiskerstrand kristian.fiskerstrand at sumptuouscapital.com
Thu Apr 9 18:45:14 CEST 2015


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On 04/09/2015 05:38 PM, NIIBE Yutaka wrote:
> On 04/10/2015 12:17 AM, Werner Koch wrote:
>> FWIW, there is a bug report that moving a key from one smart card
>> to another does not update the stub file.  We may want to check
>> for conflicting serial number is a stub file and either a) update
>> the stub file with the new serial number or b) allow to store
>> several serial numbers in one stub file.  The latter would be
>> useful if several persons have a smartcard with the same key and
>> use the same box or if you create several smartcards for backup
>> purposes.
> 
..

> 
> In OpenPGP, a single primary RSA/DSA/ECC/whatever key can be used
> by multiple User IDs.  Considering this situation, it seems for me
> that a fingerprint of primary key should be an identifier of a
> smartcard (even when all are subkeys and no primary key on a
> smartcard).

And how would you differentiate in the case you have one smartcard
with the primary key only kept securely and one smartcard for daily
use with subkeys only?

> 
> In fact, Gnuk has a feature to register its serial number by a
> user. But it seems that it's only me who use this feature.
> Perhaps, it suggests that people don't have a practice to recognize
> the serial number as an identifier.
> 
> Any thought?
> 


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