Generating an authentication key for smart card

[Werner Koch]

On Mon,  9 Jul 2007 16:52, james at freecharity.org.uk said:

> Creating 1024-bit RSA keys for signing and encryption is straight
> forward enough but what do I need to do to generate a (sub?)key to use
> for authentication which I can later transfer to the card? Or am I
> forced to create an authentication key on the card?

Use "addkey" to create a new subkey, select "RSA (set your own
capabilities)", toggle the capabilities until they are as you want them.
after the key has been created, save start --edit-key again, select that
subkey and use the "keytocard" command to store the key on the card.
You need to do this in --export mode of course.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner