Thanks. My fault. You answered my question, but I asked the wrong one in the first place. Given this sentence in the article: >An "air gap" is a low-tech, wid

Thanks. My fault. You answered my question, but I asked the wrong one in the first place. Given this sentence in the article: >An "air gap" is a low-tech, widely understood method of protecting secret key material from being compromised. If we send PGP/MIME formatted mail, air-gapping becomes inconvenient to the point of being infeasible. my question was: Wouldn't a smart card - prevent the compromise of one's secret key - therefor allow sending PGP/MIME stuff again quite easily? (your airgap explanation made sense of course)