Re: Smart card signing failure

2006-01-01 Thread David Shaw
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 03:57:41AM -0700, Kurt Fitzner wrote: > I have solved my own problem. If the gpg.conf has a setting for > personal-digest-preferences, and if an algo that is supported by a > smartcard is not first in the list, then GnuPG will fail with any > signing operation made with a s

Re: Smart card signing failure

2005-12-31 Thread Kurt Fitzner
I have solved my own problem. If the gpg.conf has a setting for personal-digest-preferences, and if an algo that is supported by a smartcard is not first in the list, then GnuPG will fail with any signing operation made with a smartcard. For example, my gpg.conf setting was: personal-digest-pr

Smart card signing failure

2005-12-30 Thread Kurt Fitzner
Hi all, I'm having a tough time trying to get a smart card to work. I followed the card-howto to the letter to initialize the card and generate the keys. This works, and gpg --card-status seems to work just fine. When I try to sign a file, though, I get: > gpg -u card --detach-sign test.txt