I've recently bought a SCR335 card reader and gnupg smartcard. I'm
having difficulties getting the card reader working on my Debian 4.0
system with gnupg 1.4.6
I've followed the instructions at
http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/howtos/card-howto/en/smartcard-howto.html but
running --card-status gives the
Please ignore my last message. Some other software was stealing away the
reader :-) It's now working fine.
James
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I've just generated a key pair using my smartcard and asked it to make a
backup which it did. I'm doing a practice restore to see how the
procedure works and I'm a little stuck. I can import my new public key
onto my keyring but when I try to import the secret key it fails to do
so and I get the fo
James Davis wrote:
> I've just generated a key pair using my smartcard and asked it to make a
> backup which it did. I'm doing a practice restore to see how the
> procedure works and I'm a little stuck. I can import my new public key
> onto my keyring but when I try
I'm sure I'll get there eventually. I tried generating some new keys on
the card today and after it appeared to successfully generate the keys
this error came up. Here's part of the output from gpg.
"James Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
Change (N)ame, (C)omment,
James Davis wrote:
> gpg: sending command `SCD WRITEKEY' to agent failed: ec=4.281
> gpg: storing key onto card failed: general error
> Key generation failed: general error
Further to my last e-mail this only occurs when I ask for a backup copy
of my key to be kept. Keeping eve
James Davis wrote:
> Sorry to bring up this thread again but I've still not been able to work
> out what I should be doing and I'd appreciate any help you can give me
> as it's holding back my adoption of the smart card.
I'm making a little progress on this. Someone
Guillaume Yziquel wrote:
> I'd really appreciate understanding what is happening...
There are some circumstances (bugs!) under which the scdaemon process
stops working. Kill that process and try again; does that help?
James
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I've been playing with generating keys for transferal to a smart card.
This way I can make backups of my keys by exporting them before placing
them on the card.
Creating 1024-bit RSA keys for signing and encryption is straight
forward enough but what do I need to do to generate a (sub?)key to use
Werner Koch wrote:
> Me too ;-). There are some text fragments floating around but there is
> no real HOWTO.
Steps 1-4 on this page still apply if you're not using a smart card.
You'll want to use ssh-add to add keys rather than expect it to pick
them up automatically though.
http://www.fsfe.
Oskar L. wrote:
> I have many e-mail addresses and change them frequently, and therefore I
> don't want to have one in my public key. (Also because I'm afraid of
> getting spam.) I think this would be easier than having to update a lot of
> user IDs. Are there any any drawbacks in not having an e-
After a hard disk died, I recently moved from Debian Etch to Ubuntu
Hardy and I'm in the process of rebuilding my gnupg/gnupg-smartcard
environment. The card is working fine for encryption and decryption but
I'm having some problems getting gpg-agent to use the authentication key
for my SSH logins.
A colleague of mine asked me to send him a signed e-mail of fingerprints
of some keys that I'd personally verified earlier in the day. I'd also
signed the keys, and published the signatures to a public key server.
I argued that my signature on the publicly available keys was as good as
the signed
Werner Koch wrote:
> Thus in the latter case there is no way to check whether the key belongs
> to a certain user ID. Of course if you sign a file with a content like:
>
> pub 2048D/1E42B367 2007-12-31 [expires: 2018-12-31]
> Key fingerprint = 8061 5870 F5BA D690 3336 86D0 F2AD 85AC
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