Migrating to Smartcards

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:40, gollo at fsfe.org said:

> AFAIR, 3072 bit keys have to be generated on the card. If you use
> off-card generation, you are limited to 2048 bits.

Really? That would be a bug.

In case it really does not work the workaround is to first create a key
with 3072 bits on the card and then overwrite it by importing a 3072 bit
key.  The background is that we need to switch the card into an n-bit
mode before we generate or import a key.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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