Migrating to Smartcards

[Hauke Laging]

Am Dienstag, 30. August 2011, 17:54:32 schrieb Richard:

> b) As far as I know, the cards can only store subkeys, i.e. no primary
> key.

Citing the documentation (--edit-key):

keytocard
Transfer  the selected secret subkey (or the primary key if no subkey has been 
selected) to a smartcard.


> Will that cause any problems in later GnuPG use as the cards' IDs are
> different?

At least no serious ones. You will probably have to make gpg read the card 
content by --card-status or --card-edit. At worst you would have to "delete" 
the secret key before.


Hauke
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