The OpenPGP Card is a specification of an ISO 7816-4,-8 compatible smartcard and also an actually available implementation of this specification as a standard sized card.

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ID-000 version

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The specification makes some card featured optional; here are the features of the currently distributed card.

• 3 independent 2048 bit RSA keys (signing,encryption,authentication).
• Key lengths reducable to 1024 bit; key length of signature keys increasable to 3072 bit.
• Key generation on card or import of existing keys.
• Signature counter.
• Data object to store an URL to access the full OpenPGP public key.
• Data objects for card holder name etc.
• Data object for login specific data.
• Data onject to store a X.509 certificate
• Length of PIN between 6 and 32 characters.
• T=1 protocol; compatible with most readers.
• Version with chip out ID-000 card available.
• Factory reset feature.
• Specification freely available and usable without any constraints.
• Reasonable priced.

The cards are distributed by our partner Kernel concepts.

GnuPG supports this card since version 1.4 and 2.0. See the announcement of 1.4.0.

Pre-compiled binaries for Microsoft Windows are available at ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/binary/.

The specification for this card is available as a PDF document:

• OpenPGP Card version 2.0
• OpenPGP Card version 1.1