What are some threats against which OpenPGP smartcards are useful?

[Andrew Gallagher]

On 2020/01/08 17:29, Franck Routier (perso) wrote:
> Notice that some features, like the metal contact toggle on some yubikey
> can mitigate the problem of having an attacker with full local access.
> You then have to touch the key each time you want to use it, so
> illegitimate access would be noticed.

On my yubikey at least, the touch contact is only used for the FIDO 2FA
- the PGP smartcard feature is secured by PIN as per any other smartcard.

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Andrew Gallagher