Or is it money? Something else?
Money and usability are certain factors here. Most of these tokens are
in the realm of $50 apiece; the GPG smart card, while closer to $20, is
still another $30 in shipping, so it would be costly unless I purchased
all ten upfront. Not to mention the user experi
On Dienstag, 22. Juni 2021 20:47:45 CEST Brandon Anderson via Gnupg-users
wrote:
> I agree that for most people having a paper backup stolen is unlikely,
> but then again, most people are not using GPG, to begin with, let alone
> GPG with smartcards or security tokens. There are several security
>
Many tutorials, examples, and articles that are talking about using
Yubikeys and smartcards currently suggest making paper backups of the
encryption key so you can add it to new devices if needed. But this, at
least to me, feels like it's significantly reducing the value of
using secure har
On 22/06/2021 17:53, Brandon Anderson via Gnupg-users wrote:
Many tutorials, examples, and articles that are talking about using
Yubikeys and smartcards currently suggest making paper backups of the
encryption key so you can add it to new devices if needed. But this, at
least to me, feels lik
For the benefit of the archives, it is possible to encrypt outgoing
emails to your own key as well as the recipient's key, which ensures
that the sent-mail folder is readable by the sender. Most email
clients will do so by default (e.g. mutt, thunderbird/enigmail), and
in most such clients all
On 22/06/2021 07:47, Brandon Anderson via Gnupg-users wrote:
If you know the recipient, then solving the latter is easy. Ask the
recipient
to resend the message encrypted with your new key.
In my setup, when something is sent, only the encrypted mail is sent to
my sent folder, so if I were
On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 23:47, Brandon Anderson said:
> the PIV functions only support 2048 RSA and NIST curves. The only card
That's per PIV specs.
> What would it take to add support for retirement key slots into the
> GPG smartcard specification? If retirement slots were added to the
> smartcard
