On 11/11/2020 21.38, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
11.11.2020 22:45, Lew Wolfgang пишет:
Considering the PGP problems we've been hearing about, it was a relief to see that the smartcard ecosystem still works with the new Thunderbird version. All of my hundreds of saved public certs are still there and usable too!
You mean that a) you have (a lot of) public keys on smartcard and b) Thunderbird actually uses these keys and not public keys imported and managed by Thunderbird? While I somehow doubt the former[1], but I guess it is possible - the latter is simply impossible according to all available information. Either you misinterpret what you see or I would be really interested to know how to configure Thunderbird to use externally managed public keys.
Or you are talking about pre-78 version of Thunderbird that used external GnuPG which continues to use existing keyring and smartcard for existing *secret* keys.
[1] Smartcards usually do not store public keys at all, and certainly not "hundreds" of them. They store URL to fetch public key corresponding to secret key.
I don't think he said that the imported public keys reside in the card. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)