Smartcard to decrypt a Filesystem

[David Shaw]

On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 09:13:30AM +0100, Björn Klement wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to store a key on a smartcard. And now I want to use the smartcard token to access to an encrypted filesystem or file. I tried to crypt a Filesystem with losetup.
> 
> gpg --decrypt /tmp/key.gpg | /sbin/losetup -e AES128 /dev/loop0 /dev/hda6 -p 0
> 
> mount /dev/loop0 /crypto
> 
> It works fine, but the key is stored local and I want to store the
> key on a Aladdin Etoken Pro. And other People with the key an there
> Token should also decrypt the fs.

Get yourself one of these: http://www.g10code.de/p-card.html

and you're all set.

David