[offtopic] OpenGPG Smartcard with keylength >1024

Alexander W. Janssen yalla at fsfe.org
Wed Dec 12 22:53:04 CET 2007


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Remco Post schrieb:
> If this is true, an openpgp smartcard could do 2048 bits, but would cost
> a bit more, I'd be very intrested. Speed is not really an issue, unless
> of course signing or decryption would take more than say 5 seconds.

Well, I heard it in a talk Werner gave during a FSFE-meeting in
Duesseldorf a couple of months ago.
However, I don't know of any vendor shipping cards doing 2048 bits. Or
even DSA.

Cheers, Alex.


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