Best practice to use several smartcards for a single key?

Erich Eckner gnupg at eckner.net
Sat Dec 12 17:03:56 CET 2020


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On Sat, 12 Dec 2020, Nicolas Boullis wrote:

> Hi,

Hi Nicolas,

>
> Since the smartcard that held all my subkeys died, I have to replace my
> subkeys, and I’m willing to store them on several smartcards, just in
> case I am unlucky again…

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> Any opinion on this?

Sry to not answer your question(s), but: I believe, the common way is to 
use *one* smart card and backup the keys on paper (or any other offline 
storage, like a usb thumb drive lying in some shoe box).

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> Best regards,
>
> -- 
> Nicolas

regards,
Erich

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