On 04/04/17 11:22, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > I will add that the "Are smartcards out of vogue?" question has > an loaded question taste to it.
Depends whether by "smartcard" you mean the technology or the form factor. The underlying protocol is here for the long term - it's the same one banks use for credit cards so even if it's not fashionable, it will still be supported by software for the foreseeable future. But smart cards (the form factor) really only make practical sense if your equipment has a built-in smart card reader - and that is highly dependent on industry fashion. My current work laptop has an inbuilt reader and that's why I chose a full format smartcard over a yubikey or a clamshell reader - both of which are less physically portable but more logically portable. So while the smartcard protocol may be here to stay, the credit-card form factor might not. But don't agonise over it. As long as you are careful and keep an offline backup of your primary key and encryption subkey, all you lose by picking an obsolete form factor is the money you spent on the physical hardware. Andrew.
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