On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 11:08 PM Ingo Klöcker <kloec...@kde.org> wrote:
> On Montag, 29. März 2021 15:09:02 CEST J Rt via Gnupg-users wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am using several smartcards with the same private key for redundancy in > > case I lose one of them. I have been doing so for several years, and > > occasionally changing which card I use has always been a bit of a hazzle > > (in the lines of for example the discussion here: > > https://sven-seeberg.de/wp/?p=967 ). > > > > This is not a super big deal, I can fix this easily with a method similar > > to what is explained on the blog, but still, it is a bit annoying to need > > to fix things by hand. > > > > My questions are: > > > > - is there a better / simpler way to register several cards that are > > interchangeable? > > - if not, any hope this may be added some day / where could I ask for > such > > a feature / is there some WIP already working on this? > > The upcoming GnuPG 2.3 (which is currently in beta testing) supports using > several smartcards with the same private key. gpg simply checks if any of > the > inserted smartcards provide the secret key and then uses this smartcard. > If no > inserted smartcard provides the secret key, then gpg will ask for the > smartcard registered in the stub file. But you can insert any card > providing > the key. gpg does not insist on using the smartcard listed in the stub > file. > > This may or may not work with a recent version of gpg 2.2 already because > quite a few things were backported to the 2.2 series. > > What gpg 2.3 does not do is register multiple smartcards in the stub files > and, consequently, gpg does not ask for all smartcards that provide the > secret > key. It's up to you to keep track of which of your multiple smartcards > provide > the needed secret key. > > Regards, > Ingo > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users Ok, many thanks for the explanation! Then this means that I should "just" wait for 2.3 :) . Hope this comes to the next Ubuntu LTS release :) .
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