Andre Amorim <an...@amorim.me> writes: > Sorry, I didn't want get too far from the subject of the topic. But > the previous post raised a doubt on top of my head. Can anybody > explain (if it's not too much technical) why people say that once a > key is generated inside the smartcard it is impossible to that key get > out of it
As far as I know about crypto smartcards (not only OpenPGP on) they have software onboard that can generate a key pair but there is virtually no code that can send it outside of the card. > (except of course the Command> generate > Make off-card backup of encryption key? (Y/n)?) I know: secret keys may be uploaded to a card but not downloaded from it. I think (read speculate): the above question is asked when you generate a key pair on the PC and upload it to a card. -- Miłego dnia, Łukasz Stelmach _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
