making (future) OpenPGP cards without PIN pad safer

Hauke Laging mailinglisten at hauke-laging.de
Wed Nov 21 21:45:31 CET 2012


Am Mi 21.11.2012, 20:42:38 schrieb Michel Messerschmidt:

> If you want to reduce the dependency on unknown systems, I would
> rather have a look at cards with integrated keypad.
> A future OpenPGP card might take advantage of this feature.

That is more expensive than my proposal but not safer. The only advantage is 
that card usage is not blocked if you need more crypto operations than you 
have TANs available. But that is mainly a question of storage (i.e. no 
problem).


Hauke
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