OpenPGP smartcard and RSA 8192 bit

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Mon Mar 24 01:26:03 CET 2014


On Mar 23, 2014, at 8:37 AM, ------ ------ <postpics123 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Just for the sake of curiosity, is it possible to store a 8192 bit RSA key on the OpenPGP smart card? Two keys ? Three keys?

No.  You can store three 4096-bit RSA keys.  Larger than that is not possible on the card (and not supported in GnuPG even not using a smartcard).

David




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