Is it possible to have the same authentication key on several smartcard ?

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:46, tux.tsndcb at free.fr said:

> Is it possible to have the same authentication key on several smartcard ? 

Yes.  You need to generate the key off-card and and then put it onto the
card.  Use gpg --edit-key and the subcommands genkey and keytocard for
this.

> Is it possible to done an authentication key backup when it has been generated directly on a smartcard ?

No.  An on-card generated key can't be extracted from the card (except
for the public part of course).


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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