A few newbie questions, I'am doing this right?

Hauke Laging mailinglisten at hauke-laging.de
Tue Dec 18 01:06:07 CET 2012


Am Mo 17.12.2012, 23:37:33 schrieb MFPA:

> > Once unlocked the
> > OpenPGP card does as many decryptions as you want. I do
> > not see any reason for that.
> 
> Convenience. (Which is often the opposite of security.)

No. Allowing(!) you to do so would be convinience. Even making this the 
default may be considered such. Forcing(!) you to act this way is far from a 
positive attribute like "convenience". Enforcing a reduction of security is in 
a security context strange at best.


Hauke
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