Questions about the use with GnuPG and SmartCards

[Werner Koch]

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:53:57 +0000, cdr  said:

> Use of smatrcards presents a sociological phenomenon, deserving
> further research: unexpectedly large number of computer security
> practitioners who don't trust closed source crypto on open hardware
> but apparently do trust closed source crypto on closed hardware.

Well, your CPU is also closed source.  I am pretty sure than one can
do nifty things with a Transmeta CPU for example.

The problem with the smartcards is that it is very hard to get a plain
chip without signing an NDA.  Thanks to the commercial pay TV
crackers.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner