On Sep 10, 2009, at 3:36 AM, Sean Wilson wrote:
Does anyone know if the new OpenPGP 2.0 card supports Hushmail keys?
From what I understand Hushmail is based on OpenPGP so it should
work.
The key I have from my Hushmail account is 2048bit in length but
once I
copy the key onto the OpenPGP 2.0 card I can't decrypt Hushmail email
anymore, any idea why?
It should work fine. It sounds like a different sort of problem.
Also, if I generate a brand new key pair ON the OpenPGP 2.0 card, will
anyone be able to export or copy the private key (if the OpenPGP
card is
NOT inserted in the reader)? Does GPG write a copy of the keys
anywhere
else besides on the card?
No, but there is a stub secret key that lives in the usual secret
keyring. This isn't a true secret key (it does not contain the actual
key data), but is the OpenPGP information (user IDs and other things),
along with a pointer that says "the key is on smartcard XYZ".
So if they can get ahold of your computer, someone could steal this
stub, but there is nothing secret about it, and it won't do them any
good.
David
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