Spanish ID card

[John Clizbe]

David Picon Alvarez wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Can anyone inform me if gpg will atl all work with the new Spanish
> electronic ID card? The official site for it is http://www.dnielectronico.es
> but I don't know if they have anything but a Spanish version. It would be
> nice to be able to sign and encrypt using a familiar program.

Hola David,

A quick scan of Guia de Referencia Basica
(http://www.dnielectronico.es/PDFs/Guia_de_referencia_basica_v1.0.pdf) confirms
what I had initially thought: It is a X.509v3 based system.

You'll need the card specific PKCS#11 library (Crytographic Service Provider in
Windows parlance) and a reader and you should be able to use the card with most
modern browsers and email programs:eg, IE/OE/Outlook,
Firefox/Thunderbird/Seamonkey. There may be others, but those are the ones I
deal with on Windows platforms. Info on the CSP is at
www.dnielectronico.es/descargas/

Since you're using Windows, for email signing you'll be limited to S/MIME unless
use use a Smart Card-enabled application such as a modern release of PGP which
allows the use of a X.509 certificate to make an OpenPGP signature. (The keys on
the cards are RSA).

If my Spanish wasn't so rusty I could probably give you some better answers.

-- 
John P. Clizbe                   Inet:   JPClizbe(a)tx DOT rr DOT con
Golden Bear Networks             PGP/GPG KeyID: 0x608D2A10
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind." - Dr Seuss, "Oh the Places You'll Go"

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 663 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
Url : /pipermail/attachments/20061117/6d687313/signature-0001.pgp