Hi Patrick,
Patrick Bx wrote (23 Aug 2012 22:08:51 GMT) :
> I've updated the wiki entry about Tails supporting the OpenPGP smart
> cards from kernelconcepts.de.
> https://tails.boum.org/todo/support_OpenPGP_smartcards/
Thanks a lot!
> If Tails starts building from Debian Wheezy the packages 'libccid'
> and 'pcscd' should be enough to make things work with the Gemalto
> USB shell Token (A USB smart card reader) that is popularly used
> with OpenPGP cards.
Are you interested in trying to backport these two packages for
Squeeze, or testing backports we would prepare, and see if that's
enough to get things working?
> A group of developers at the Guardian Project have been updating
> their PGP key management practices to include using an
> longterm-offline-master-key while keeping subkeys on OpenPGP smart
> cards. The tails distribution seems a natural choice for managing
> offline GPG keys since it wipes the RAM after use. We are
> documenting the process at https://gist.github.com/gists/3420017.
Nice to hear :)
Cheers,
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