OpenPGP Smartcard Advantages

[Alex L. Mauer]

Werner Koch wrote:

> The only thing a malicious host can do is to lock the card (by sending
> several times a wrong PIN) and to trick you into signing or decrypting
> data.

This just made me think.

Wouldn't it thus be trivial [for a malicious host] to destroy a smart
card (by sending the wrong admin pin repeatedly)?

-Alex Mauer "hawke"
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