Trying to create auth key on GPF CryptoStick

[Martin Gollowitzer]

* Paul Hartman <paul.hartman at gmail.com> [120102 08:52, 
  mID <CAEH5T2O4HFyOFTKi8Bm16gXwcZhBpTmVQz7NQiQBW3yKmh5_LA at mail.gmail.com>]:

> Hi,
> 
> I got a GPF CryptoStick 1.2 yesterday and have successfully added my
> new signing and encrypting subkeys to the card using GPG 2.0.18 and
> using it without trouble so far for those purposes. However, when I
> tried to create an authentication key it gives this error twice:
> gpg: key generation failed: Card error
> gpg: Key generation failed: Card error
> 
> To get there, I ran "gpg --edit-key <my keynum>", then "addcardkey"
> command, chose Authentication key, 4096 keysize, enter the requested
> PINs and passphrase, but it results in the error above.
> 
> It is likely I'm doing something wrong, but am not sure what... if
> someone has any clues, it is appreciated if you can point me in the
> right direction.

Even v2 cards can't carry 4096 Bit keys. The maximum size is 3072 Bits
IIRC.

Martin
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