OpenPGP card, >1024bit keysize

[Thomas Jensch]

Hello,

Matthias Kirschner <mk at fsfe.org> [2009-07-15 15:05]:
> We hope to receive the new cards with the Fellowship branding soon.  And
> we are currently testing the new cards which are the same as those
> quoted above.
At the LinxTag Berlin me had a look at the German Privacy Foundation booth and 
they are playing around with a very kewl thing: a combined smartcard/USB 
stick.
For security stuff this seems to me like an excellent idea, since the 
smartcard holds the secret keys and the USB stick part could serve as the 
boot-partition. 
It doesnt need a card reader plugged to the computer and having the boot 
partition on an external stick eliminates one of the few possible attack 
scenarios left with a fully encrypted disk.

mfg
Thomas Jensch, Intern - Zurich office

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