Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Janusz A. Urbanowicz wrote: >> You can't read a private key from the smartcard, but you can read it >> from the flashdrive. SC is a crypto processor + storage, flashdrive >> only storage. > > All of which is true. However, the bit to which I was replying was: > > "A smartcard is very convenient as far as it's a multi application > device, so you can store much other info apart from GnuPG keys, i.e. > Mozilla passwords or such." > > ... And I'm still trying to figure out how that's different from a flash > drive. Maybe there is a difference and I'm not seeing it. Or maybe > there isn't one. >
I don't use a flash drive or a smartcard, for the following reasons:
- Flash drives are too prone to failures at bizzare moments
- Smartcards are largely experimental and don't have the instant
usability of a USB stick
(/me mutters something about "The right tool for the right job"...)
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