I have solved my own problem. If the gpg.conf has a setting for personal-digest-preferences, and if an algo that is supported by a smartcard is not first in the list, then GnuPG will fail with any signing operation made with a smartcard.
For example, my gpg.conf setting was: personal-digest-preferences SHA256 SHA384 SHA512 This was causing gnupg to fail with all signing operations. I don't know whether or not this is a bug, or just an error message that is too cryptic. Kurt. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users