Re: Subject: openpgp card and basiccard RNG

2014-02-13 Thread Kostantinos Koukopoulos
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Kostantinos Koukopoulos < koukopoulos+gnupg-us...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Makes sense, So does anyone know the version of BasicCard used for openpgp > cards? Or who to contact with this question? I asked at the distributor ( > kernelconcepts.de)

Re: Subject: openpgp card and basiccard RNG

2014-02-06 Thread Kostantinos Koukopoulos
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Michael Anders wrote: > > > In my opinion a (good) PRNG seeded properly under user control is no > problem. > If -as the FAQ seems to tell- it is primed during production, beyond > user control, this implies that normal users have to fully trust the > manufacturer

openpgp card and basiccard RNG

2014-02-03 Thread Kostantinos Koukopoulos
Hello, Aparrently the OpenPGP card is based on BasicCard [1] and from the BasicCard FAQ [2] I read: "For Enhanced BasicCards, the card has no hardware generator. The Enhanced BasicCards contain a unique manufacturing number which cannot be read from outside the card. The Rnd function uses this numb