Using Smartcards without it's public key

[Hauke Laging]

Am Samstag, 3. März 2012, 22:14:12 schrieb Werner Koch:
> No. Public OpenPGP keys are often pretty lare and would not fit on the
> card.  Thus we decided not to do it at all.

But it the public key technically necessary to decrypt data? I checked what 
happens if the public key is unavailable (but the secret key in its keyring). 
The secret key is listed but gpg aborts when decrypting, complaining about the 
missing public key.


Hauke
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