The comment is pointless, ECC systematically doesn't allow
encryption/decryption directly, only RSA does that. If you want to use
ECC for asymmetric encryption/decryption you have to combine it with key
exchange scheme and symmetric scheme. This all is not a limitation of
the Yubikey, hence don't claim so. It's just how ECC is.
<para>A few notes on the above:</para>
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- <listitem><para>We use RSA (and not ECC), since Yubikeys support PKCS#11 Decrypt() only for RSA keys</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>We use RSA2048, which is the longest key size current Yubikeys support</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>LUKS key size must be shorter than 2048bit due to RSA padding, hence we use 128 bytes</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>We use Yubikey key slot 9d, since that's apparently the keyslot to use for decryption purposes,