Opengpg smartcard specs for kyber (PQC) algorithm

Andreas Metzler ametzler at bebt.de
Wed May 14 18:48:06 CEST 2025


On 2025-05-14 Werner Koch via Gnupg-users <gnupg-users at gnupg.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 May 2025 10:07, Andrew Gallagher said:

> > In what way does it interact badly? Is it worse than just a version

> Systemd tries to start /usr/bin/gpg-agent as soon as another process
> (e.g. /usr/local/bin/gpg) tries to connect to the gpg-agent socket.
> Thus gpg will connect to a gpg-agent which is not the one installed
> under /usr/local/bin (or whereever gnupg was installed).

> Here is an untested hack to avoid this by using the gpgconf.ctl hack.
[...]

Hello,

If the problem really is that gnupg 2.5 is installed alongside the
distro gnupg 2.4 packages and the wrong agent (2.4) is started via
systemd then the natural way to fix this is to mask the system
user-units as described in /usr/share/doc/gpg-agent/README.Debian

cu Andreas
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