Smart Card 4096 Key Question

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Mon Sep 1 08:16:56 CEST 2014


On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 23:27, tristan.santore at internexusconnect.net said:

> Yes the card can have a 4096bit Auth, Sign and Encryption key. You have

Correct.

> to generate them on a machine though, not on card.

The cards generate them just fine.

Note that this is only true for the ZeitControl as currenty distributed.
Thus the warning note you see if you use a different key size than 2048
bit.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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