Generating an authentication key for smart card

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Generating an authentication key for smart card
\ James Davis (9 Jul 2007)
. \ Werner Koch (9 Jul 2007)

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Subject:	Generating an authentication key for smart card
Group:	Gnupg-users
From:	James Davis
Date:	9 Jul 2007

I've been playing with generating keys for transferal to a smart card.
This way I can make backups of my keys by exporting them before placing
them on the card.

Creating 1024-bit RSA keys for signing and encryption is straight
forward enough but what do I need to do to generate a (sub?)key to use
for authentication which I can later transfer to the card? Or am I
forced to create an authentication key on the card?

Thanks,

James

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