On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 02:05, Crypto Stick <cryptost...@privacyfoundation.de> wrote: > For a state-of-the-art smart card like the OpenPGP Card 2, I > guess the price tag would be around 100.000 Euros
100.000 as a one-time investment for breaking into an unlimited number of OpenPGP smart cards? If I were a government, I would definitely buy such a machinery... While at the same time, German authorities fail to break GnuPG's encryption for private keys, given a dictionary attack doesn't work out. (See http://annalist.noblogs.org/post/2009/01/04/bka-ratespielchen-rund-um-gnupg/ -- but it's written in German). Hence, one has to assume it's safer to use encrypted harddrives for key storage than a smartcard if one wants to protect their data from German authorities, I guess. Richard _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
