Hi Josh, I am using a smart card and reader for about 6 months now. The set up I went with is: Smart-card "OpenPGP Smartcard V2.1" from kernel concepts ( http://shop.kernelconcepts.de/). The card supports keys up to 4096 length with gpg2.
Card-reader - Gemalto GemPC Twin/TR (IDBridge CT30) - works out of the box on linux and windows (tested it on windows 7 SP1 and windows 8.1). I got mine here http://www.smartcardfocus.com/shop/ilp/id~463/gemalto-gempc-twin-tr-idbridge-ct30-/p/index.shtml To get the card reader working in Linux I used this guide to get me started (was able to set everything up with no hassle) - https://www.corsac.net/?rub=blog&post=1548. I only needed to install pcsc-tools and pcscd. For Windows I installed gpg4win and migrated my linux gpg.conf and keys over and it just worked. Also in windows if you want to use putty with a smart card you will need a patched putty agent. You can get one from here http://smartcard-auth.de/ssh-en.html. It is free to use with OpenPGP Smartcards from kernel concepts so a win-win :). Last but not least - make sure to back up your private keys! Once a key is on the card it is impossible to get it back. I only got the above for test use but now I am using it every day at work, at home and on my laptop without any issues. I can sign, encrypt/decrypt as well as authenticate for SSH with a single smart card. Let me know if you need any additional information. Regards, Martin On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 at 17:44 Antoine Michard <antoine.mich...@chezgeek.fr> wrote: > I've try, on Fedora 23 I can't use my USB smartcard reader without PCSC > daemon > > This package are needed: pcsc-lite pcsc-lite-ccid pcsc-tools > > Antoine Michard > GPG Key: 0xF5C9E7CD0882B381 > > Le 27/02/2016 18:14, Peter Lebbing a écrit : > > On 27/02/16 17:58, Antoine Michard wrote: > >> But on Linux is not so easy. You have to install all needed depencies > for the > >> reader (pcscd) > > > > I should note that pcscd is not needed for the readers I mentioned in my > reply, > > since they are well supported through the builtin driver of scdaemon > (and GnuPG > > 1.4). > > > > In fact, installing pcscd will make it more difficult to use. I suggest > to only > > use pcscd for readers that are not natively supported by GnuPG, unless > you have > > specific needs (usually when you want to use smartcards for more things > than GnuPG). > > > >> and sometimes Gnome Keyring will make harder to make it work [5]. > > > > Heck, yeah. > > > > HTH, > > > > Peter. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users >
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