Nitrokey HSM and GPG

[Andreas Schwier]

Dear Martin,

the Nitrokey HSM has an embedded SmartCard-HSM which is only supported
by gpgsm. Unfortunately you can not use a key on the device as gpg key,
but only for S/MIME. GPG only supports cards that conform to the OpenPGP
Card Specification, which the SmartCard-HSM doesn't.

Andreas

On 02/24/2016 04:59 PM, Martin Konold wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am successfully using Nitrokey Pro with GnuPG 2.1.11.
> 
> On the otherhand I have a need to support more than 3 RSA subkeys and 
> therefore I am testing with Nitrokey HSM which is supposed to be able to deal 
> with up to 48 RSA-2048 keys.
> 
> On an uptodate openSUSE I verfied that Nitrokey Pro fully works as expected but 
> Nitrokey HSM fails with 
> 
> OpenPGgpg2 --card-status
> gpg: selecting openpgp failed: Card error
> gpg: OpenPGP card not available: Card error
> 
> Kind Regards
> --martin konold
> 


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