OpenPGP card and BasicCard

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 09:08:24 +0200, Christian Rank said:

> according to a notice at www.basiccard.com, the BasicCard manufactured
> by ZeitControl cardsystems GmbH should support the OpenPGP smartcard
> specification. Are the OpenPGP cards sold by kernelconcepts.de such
> BasicCards?

The cards are build upon the Basiccard OS but they are not a freely
programmable Basiccard.  Note, that Zeitcontrol's cards with RSA
encryption are not available to end users (probably due to fear of
litigation coming from pay TV companies; those using the security by
litigation crypto algorithm).

Zeitcontrol's page is somewhat misleading, claiming "OpenPGP select
the...".



Shalom-Salam,

   Werner