Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hardened

From: Justin Jessup <hackerotaku@××××.com>
To: gentoo-hardened@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] smartcards: apache & openssl - internet explorer / mozilla
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:53:40
Message-Id: 20030828115339.A35CB4511@mo110uhou.palm.net
1 interesting
2 question is how many bits?
3 40,128
4 can the card generate over 1024 for key size?
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6 justin jessup
7 Gentoo Junky
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10 www.gezuinc.com
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12 Daniel Struck <community@××××××.lu> wrote:
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14 >> keys will be stored on the cards
15 >> not generated by the card chip
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17 >Strange, because I read the following on the Muscle website:
18 >(http://www.linuxnet.com/cardsec.html)
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20 >"One of the key benefits of smart cards is the ability for some cards to support on board cryptography. ... By doing the actual cryptography on the card, the keys never have to leave their storage place. This gives the card holder a secure way of storing keys especially if the key pair was generated on the card."
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23 >Daniel
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26 >gentoo-hardened@g.o mailing list
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Re: [gentoo-hardened] smartcards: apache & openssl - internet explorer / mozilla Daniel Struck <community@××××××.lu>