OpenPGP card

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Thu Nov 24 17:54:44 CET 2005


On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:20:14 +0100, Bernhard Walle said:

>  1. After key creation on the card, I can enter a passphrase. I left it
>     empty because I thought the PIN is sufficient. Is this usual?

Thsi is for the backup of the encryption key.

>  2. Is it possible to read out the private key only after creation or
>     every time?

You can't read the private key key from the card.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner





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