Crypto Stick released!

Crypto Stick cryptostick at privacyfoundation.de
Thu Jun 3 16:43:19 CEST 2010


Each of the three keys can be up to 3072 bit. In fact they can even be
4096 bit long; but GnuPG does currently not support such key length in
cooperation with the Crypto Stick (but GnuPG can handle 4096 bit
soft-keys without the Crypto Stick).

On 03.06.2010 16:23, Perry, James J. wrote:
>> >From what I see on the advertisement, they say it has "Three independent
> RSA keys (signature, encryption, authentication) with a length up to
> 3072 bit."  While I don't speak Marketing, it sure sounds like each key
> is 1024 with the three of them taking up 3072 total.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnupg-users-bounces at gnupg.org
> [mailto:gnupg-users-bounces at gnupg.org] On Behalf Of Joke de Buhr
> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 10:12 AM
> To: jh at jameshoward.us
> Cc: gnupg-users at gnupg.org
> Subject: Re: Crypto Stick released!
> 
> My stick works fine with 3072bit rsa keys.
> 
> On Tuesday 25 May 2010 15:21:05 James P. Howard, II wrote:
>> On 5/10/10 5:04 PM, Olav Seyfarth wrote:
>>> english version:
>>> http://www.privacyfoundation.de/crypto_stick/crypto_stick_english/
>>
>> My Crypto Stick arrived in the mail yesterday (Maryland, United
>> States--ordered on May 14).
>>
>> One thing I am confused about, it suggests it accepts RSA keys up to
>> 3072 bits.  However, when I tried to copy my existing 2048-bit RSA
> keys,
>> GPG reponds with:
>>
>>   Command> keytocard
>>   Signature key ....: [none]
>>   Encryption key....: [none]
>>   Authentication key: [none]
>>
>>   You may only store a 1024 bit RSA key on the card
>>
>> I take it I am missing something obvious in this?
>>
>> James
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