Question about redundant smartcard setup

2022-08-19 Thread kho via Gnupg-users
Hi, Recently I have been working with GPG and 2 smartcards (Yubikey). Despite some information here an there on internet, some things are still not clear to me. My setup has 1 master key with 6 subkeys, twice 3 keys for different purposes(A,E,S). So each smartcard will receive 3 keys.

Re: Question about redundant smartcard setup

2022-08-19 Thread kho via Gnupg-users
Yes, will do that. And the full chain from start to finish with a test key. Deal. On 8/19/22 16:25, Andrew Gallagher wrote: > On 19 Aug 2022, at 17:17, kho wrote: >> >> Thanks for this fast, complete and clear answer. >> >> I am going to see if I can still pick up somewhere or just remove all I >

Re: Question about redundant smartcard setup

2022-08-19 Thread Andrew Gallagher via Gnupg-users
On 19 Aug 2022, at 17:17, kho wrote: > > Thanks for this fast, complete and clear answer. > > I am going to see if I can still pick up somewhere or just remove all I > did and start all over by following your steps. Just a note of caution: since it is quite an involved process I would recommend

Re: Question about redundant smartcard setup

2022-08-19 Thread kho via Gnupg-users
Thanks for this fast, complete and clear answer. I am going to see if I can still pick up somewhere or just remove all I did and start all over by following your steps. This is the confirmation I needed! Thanks! On 8/19/22 15:25, Andrew Gallagher wrote: > On 19 Aug 2022, at 13:48, kho via Gnupg-

Re: Question about redundant smartcard setup

2022-08-19 Thread kho via Gnupg-users
Of course, you are right. I could store it digitally on a encrypted disk and even on paper. And like you say they are not really gone. Thanks for the tip. On 8/19/22 15:21, Werner Koch wrote: > On Fri, 19 Aug 2022 14:48, kho said: > >> 4. Another approach is that I could for example have created j

Re: Question about redundant smartcard setup

2022-08-19 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Fri, 19 Aug 2022 14:48, kho said: > 4. Another approach is that I could for example have created just 3 > subkeys (not 6) and copied all 3 to smartcard1 and again to smartcard2. > I thought that having those subkeys separately is ideal, specially in a > occasion were smartcard2 is stolen. Then

Re: Question about redundant smartcard setup

2022-08-19 Thread Andrew Gallagher via Gnupg-users
On 19 Aug 2022, at 13:48, kho via Gnupg-users wrote: > > 5. What is at the end the best way to setup 2 smartcards that can be > used in encryption, signing and decryption? And additionally both > smartscard should work, I have 2 smartcards for redundancy. If you want the two smartcards to be red

Question about redundant smartcard setup

2022-08-19 Thread kho via Gnupg-users
Hi, Recently I have been working with GPG and 2 smartcards (Yubikey). Despite some information here an there on internet, some things are still not clear to me. My setup has 1 master key with 6 subkeys, twice 3 keys for different purposes(A,E,S). So each smartcard will receive 3 keys. It works fi