KMail and smartcard
Chris
chris at fsfe.org
Tue May 24 22:36:13 CEST 2005
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 09:55, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Tue, 24 May 2005 06:41:24 +0200, Chris said:
> > How can I use the smartcard in KMail? I cannot choose its keys in the
> > Identity management.
>
> Does "gpg -K" list your key? This is what Kmail displays.
No, gpg -K does not list anything.
I have removed the ~/.gnupg directory and issued "gpg --card-status" again.
"gpg -K" does still not list anyting...
>
> You are using a decent Kmail (with all the crypto tabs in the
> configuration dialog and the requirement for gpg-agent)?
I am using KMail 1.7.2.
>
> > Using a key from the harddrive does work without problems.
>
> For gpg it makes no difference whether the key is on the disk or on
> the card. This is because we create a "stub"- secret key for every
> card key. gpg -K will show you the serial number of the cards
> associated with that secret key.
>
> If you generated the card key on another machine, please run "gpg
> --card-status" once on the new machine to create such a stub key.
>
>
> Shalom-Salam,
>
> Werner
What am I doing wrong? Any help is highly appreciated!
Best regards,
Chris
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