Decryption fails with 4096bit key on SmartCard

Marcus Ilgner marcus.ilgner at gmail.com
Mon Sep 28 21:53:22 CEST 2015


On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 at 09:04 NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe at fsij.org> wrote:

> On 09/25/2015 02:55 PM, Marcus Ilgner wrote:
>
[...]

> Thanks for the help, I have a feeling we're making some headway towards a
> > solution.
>
> The error code of 6A88 is a kind of strange for me.  If it's
> OpenPGPcard v3.x with AES symmetric key decryption support, I think
> that we could see the error of 6A88, though.
>
> It would be possible this error occurs on other Nitrokey Pro (or other
> OpenPGPcard v2.1 implementation), if this were firmware issue.
>

Ok, I'm not sure whether someone from the Nitrokey team is following this
list, so I'll contact them and ask them to reproduce this. The card claims
to support 4096bit and since the key is on the card it should be possible
to use it, too... Fingers crossed... ;)

All the best and thanks again for the assistance so far
Marcus
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