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The OpenPGP Card

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.

Front (click to enlarge)

Back

Features of this card are:

• 3 independent 1024 bit RSA keys (signing,encryption,authentication).
• 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.
• Length of PIN between 6 and 254 characters; not restricted to numbers.
• T=1 protocol; compatible with most readers.
• 40mm * 10mm sized writable field on the front matter.
• Specification freely available and usable without any constraints.
• Reasonable priced.

Availability

Cards are distributed by Kernel concepts.

Software

The stable branch of GnuPG supports this card See the announcement of 1.4.0

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

Dokumentation

The specification is available as a PDF document:

OpenPGP Card 1.1

A FAQ will be compiled soon.