Feature request: use existing key in --full-gen-key (was: gpg --card-status always create proxy private keys)

Alon Bar-Lev alon.barlev at gmail.com
Mon Feb 20 21:40:51 CET 2017


On 20 February 2017 at 06:07, NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe at fsij.org> wrote:
> NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe at fsij.org> writes:
>> Sounds good and consistent to me.  Thanks for your proposal.  I'll
>> consider implementation feasibility.
>
> I examined the related code.  Here is a patch to implement the feature.
> Also, I found that we need to a fix ECC keys.  I only tested the patch
> with RSA.
> --

Thank you so much for this!
It is working perfectly with the custom scd, I can use the existing
key as primary key and then add existing keys as subkeys.
One minor issue, not sure it worth fixing, I must execute gpg
--card-status for gnupg to find the key.

Thanks!
Alon



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