[Freedombox-discuss] Steps for integrating in Monkeysphere to Freedombox

[Marc Jones]

On 12/21/2015 05:28 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

> [Marc Jones]
>> Since OpenPGP smartcards work with GPG agents (or they should cause why
>> else would you want one) they will work with Monkeysphere too.
> 
> Will the transformation of RSA private keys from PGP to SSH and SSL
> certificates work with private PGP keys stored on smart cards?  The
> smart card block access to the private part, and make sure the private
> key is not available for reading or copying.  Will this block
> monkeysphere from creating SSH and SSL keys from a GPG key only stored
> on a smart card?
> 

I am not positive since I have never played with a smart card. I would
think that it would work fine for SSH; it would be something to try
though. Certainly wouldn't be the first time I was wrong.

I don't think it would work in the SSL situations I described though.

-Marc

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