On 21 Jul 2011 at 14:58, Werner Koch wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:48, pe...@digitalbrains.com said: > > > AFAIK, you need to get the public key imported in GnuPG before you do > > --card-status. So you first download your own public key from a > > keyserver or a website or a USB stick, you don't get it from the > > smartcard. Only when GnuPG already has the public key, will it create > > the secret key stubs when it sees your smartcard. > > Right. This is also the reason why we have the URL field on the card. For > example on my card: > > URL of public key : finger:w...@g10code.com > > Now if I run "gpg --card-edit" I just need to enter "fetch" and gpg will > fetch the key from that URL.
Thank you both for that piece of info, it was the missing information I think. In a real world scenario this wouldn't be an issue (and hardly noticed) but in this case I was testing this specifically and only, and didn't see any notice of the pubkey having to be imported first; I'm unsure if those pieces of information have been put together earlier in the replies I've read. Thanks. /J > > > Salam-Shalom, > > Werner > > -- > Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. > _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
