Re: Securing multiple keys with one smart card

Werner Koch via Gnupg-users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi!

> Is there a known way to encrypt multiple/all private keys in the
> keyring with a single smart card?

Do you mean to replace the passphrase by some kind of encryption using a
smartcard?  This is not possible but it may be worth to discuss such an
option.

> Using one card per identity is cost and convenience prohibitive.

In theory you can create several *PGP keys  with the same physical key
on the smartcard.  But there are some problems.  It is better to use
smartcard which allows to store/create several keys and not just the 3
keys we specified for the OpenPGP card.  An updated specification of the
OpenPGP card will support more keys.

The drawback of this all is that smartcards may build up a defect and you
would loose access to all your private keys.q


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner


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