Re: On Nitrokey Pro's ECC support

From: Konstantin Ryabitsev
Date: Wed Jun 26 2019 - 11:21:43 EST


On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 08:25:41AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 17:11:46 +0300
Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxx> wrote:

I was getting myself a smartcard stick and looked for options from [1].
The documentation says that Nitrokey Pro does not support ECC while it
actually does [2]. I was already canceling my order when Jan Suhr, the
CEO of that company, kindly pointed out to me this.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/maintainer-pgp-guide.html
[2] https://shop.nitrokey.com/shop/product/nitrokey-pro-2-3

Maybe Konstantin (copied) might be willing to supply an update to the
document to reflect this?

Hello:

I just sent a patch with updates that reflect ECC capabilities in newer devices.

Best,
-K