On Feb 16, 2010, at 2:29 PM, Stefan Xenon wrote: > Hi! > When using "gpg --card-edit" and "fetch" gnupg tries to download the > public key from a key server. Instead, is it possible to fetch the > public key from an OpenPGP Card v2.0 directly? If so, how to do this? > Otherwise do I need to keep a backup of my public key always together > with my OpenPGP Card?
The data stored on the card is only the secret key - and even then, it's only the necessary pieces of the secret key (there is a lot of redundant data in the OpenPGP key format). You cannot recreate a public key from a card, so you must store it elsewhere. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
