Sunset of a smartcard encryption key

[Andrew Gallagher]

> On 7 Mar 2020, at 23:13, Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users <gnupg-users at gnupg.org> wrote:
> 
> What I would like to know how people handle the case when a SmardCard gets lost,
> broken or maybe confiscicated at an Airport etc.?

I generate my keys in a copy of Tails and then copy to smartcard without saving changes on disk; that way I have a backup of all key material. I’ve never lost a smartcard but last year I had to factory reset one and restore from the backup when it went a little haywire.

Andrew Gallagher