> I admit this is a bit odd, No, it's a pretty natural question. I had the same idea
> Now when I take the card to another computer, with an empty keyring, > shouldn't I be able to make use of my private key stored on the card? Wishful thinking. Unfortunately it does not work that way. At least from what I have experienced so far. You need the corresponding public key imported before usage on that new machine/account and run a gpg2 --card-status afterwards to make the key on the card known to gnupg. AFAIK there is no option like --keyring=smartcard So next to the card you also need an usb stick to transport the public key, when using the smartcard on a different account/machine. Not sure wether this is also true for S/MIME. But that would probably need a different kind of smartcard and there is no up to date documentation that I am aware of what recent PKI/X509 cards are properly supported by linux. And maybe you are bound to gnupg anyway. > What am I doing wrong? You are too optimistic about the usage of a smartcart with gnupg ;) However, I am pretty new to this topic, too, so maybe some more experienced user will correct me. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
