Key Capabilities

Hi, I have read about the following key capabilites: - sign - encrypt - authenticate - certification When I generate an RSA key, GPG provides the capabilities sign, encrypt and authenticate (in expert mode), but not certification. Is certification somethin that is actually implemented or planne

Re: Key Capabilities

On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 02:34:06PM +0100, Olaf Gellert wrote: > Hi, > > I have read about the following key capabilites: > > - sign > - encrypt > - authenticate > - certification > > When I generate an RSA key, GPG provides the capabilities > sign, encrypt and authenticate (in expert mode), but

Re: Key Capabilities

Olaf Gellert wrote: When I generate an RSA key, GPG provides the capabilities sign, encrypt and authenticate (in expert mode), but not certification. Certification is always used automatically for the primary (signing) key. If you edit your key (gpg --edit-key ) you'll see a "Usage: CS" for

Problems with OpenPGP smart card

Hi! I'm trying to use an OpenPGP smart card with gnupg, but I don't get it working. When I try to generate a keypair on the card, the card starts generating it but after a while I get "Key generation failed: general error". I'm using a ReinerSCT smard card reader which, I think, works fine, b