OpenPGP card specification 2.0 improvement?

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 17 May 2011 02:31, gniibe at fsij.org said:

> If a card supports variable length of PIN, it would be better to have
> format to specify length of input on host side.

The standard does not allow for this.  Hwoever there is a simple
workaround:  Do a VERIFY for the old PIN first to see whether it is
correct and only then assemble the CHANGEREFERENCEDATA.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner


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