Hi David, thanks for your reply. In the OpenPGP Card spec I discovered the command "Generate Public Keypair". So I assume the card would allow such feature but GnuPG does not support it yet?
Regards Stefan Am 16.02.2010 20:59, schrieb David Shaw: > 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
