how to use gpg with a smartcard, when there is no smartcard

[Stephan Hermann]

Hi,




Werner Koch schrieb:
> On Fri,  9 Nov 2007 10:28, sh at sourcecode.de said:
>
>   
>> There must be a possibility to sign something without having a smartcard 
>> reader attached, right?
>>     
>
> Sure.  You need to tell gpg to use a different key for signing  
>
>   gpg -s -u other-key
>
> will work.  If that other key is a subkey and tehre is also a smartcard
> based subkey which is preferred over other-key you need to apped an '!',
> e.g.
>
>   gpg -s -u '0x1234567!'
>
> The exclamation mark forces gpg to use exactly that subkey; the default
> is to figure out what will be the best subkey (or primary key) to use.
>   
Thx Werner let me see if this works when I'm back in the office without 
any smartcard reader :)

\sh