On 12/04/17 22:42, Antony Prince wrote: > Before I added > "disable-scdaemon", gpg-agent would complain that it couldn't find the > key on the card (I've never had one). Since adding that option, that > error has gone away, but it still does not work and gpg-agent doesn't > provide any helpful output.
I don't think you're telling gpg-agent "that key is not on a card". You're telling it "you can't work with cards". Consequently, the little guy or girl living in the code of gpg-agent goes "Hmmm, this is a key on a card. I can't work with a card. I can't work with this key." I think you were hoping it would think "let's look elsewhere", but it likely will not do so. It is a decidedly different behaviour than gpg-agent on Linux. There, it will check if a smartcard is currently connected and if so, offer such a key for authentication. For SSH, it will *never ask* to insert a card! It'll just skip it outright. So it seems gpg-agent is doing entirely different things on Windows. Does it even support on-disk authentication keys or is it smartcard-only? I don't know, I haven't used Windows for anything other than games for very long. I did read the release notes when Putty support was introduced, and it only discussed smartcard keys, but that isn't conclusive proof it only supports smartcard keys. HTH, Peter. -- I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) in combination with Enigmail. You can send me encrypted mail if you want some privacy. My key is available at <http://digitalbrains.com/2012/openpgp-key-peter>
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