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On Monday, December 18, 2000 9:48 PM, Andrew Hall [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
wrote:
> Does anyone know if Smart Cards can support an Elyptical Curve Cryptosystem?
>
> , this may solve your problem with having to generate a 2048 but key.
>
> Andrew
> -----Original Message-----
> From: anil kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, 19 December 2000 1:43pm
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [[OCF] 2048 bit key pair]
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>
> "Ramkumar.R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have to use 2048bit key pair.
> Is there any smartcard which supports 2048 bit key pairs ?
> Also is there any method to extract private key from the card
> just after generating the key pair.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Bye for now
> Ram
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Hi Ram,
>
> You cannot generate 2048 bit key pair in the smart card environment.
> (according to my knowledge). GPK8000 supports 512,768 and 1024
> keyLength. If you give more than that, it will throw InvalidKeyException.
> May be you can generate 2048 bit key pair using Cert C (Out side smart card
> environment). Try that.
>
> You cannot extract the private key from the smart card. only Public portion
> is addressable.
>
> Regards,
>
> --Anil Kumar.T
>
>
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