Re: Question about getting started with PGP and smart cards

2016-03-01 Thread Andrew Gallagher
On 01/03/16 00:14, Joshua Terrill wrote: > Thanks for the replies, everyone. So what about a solution like Yubikey > NEO? I read on their site that you can generate a keypair and put it on > the yubikey. But what I'm a little confused about is, once you have the > public and private key on the card

Re: Question about getting started with PGP and smart cards

2016-03-01 Thread CANNON NATHANIEL CIOTA
On 2016-02-26 22:08, Joshua Terrill wrote: Hello, I am looking to play around/experiment with gnupg and smart cards. From what little research I've done, I've read about OpenPGP smart cards don't reveal private keys, and do all decrypting/signing on the device itself after entering a PIN. Do I h

Re: Question about getting started with PGP and smart cards

2016-03-01 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> best smartcards there are for GPG use. For getting started with GPG and > smartcards, my recommendation would be to: Please, *don't* do this. This is genuinely bad advice for someone who's just getting started. If you're just getting started, then use the defaults. The defaults are good ones;