openpgp card problem

Henry Bremridge henry.bremridge at xobie.com
Thu Jan 25 21:04:20 CET 2007


As a newbie who has just started using his card and in the expectation I
will be corrected where I am wrong:

On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 05:54:32PM +0100, Jørgen Lysdal wrote:
> For the last 2 hours i have been playing with my new openpgp card and
> reader, trying to figure out how stuff works. So there are a few questions.
> 
> Can i restore my public key with only the card?

Your public key is public, so why would you need to restore it?

> 
> Do i need to backup my "secret key" from my local keyring or can i
> restore it from my card?

See http://www.fsfe.org/en/card/howto/subkey_howto

 
--
Henry
Thu Jan 25 20:03:15 GMT 2007
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