Difference gpg1 and gpg2 with OpenPGP smartcard

Thomas Hühn newsgroups at thomas-huehn.de
Sun Aug 26 15:17:13 CEST 2007


Hi

I have Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. And I see this:

huehnts at blackbox:~$ LANG=C gpg --card-status
gpg: detected reader `REINER SCT CyberJack pp_a (8348344228) 00 00'
Application ID ...: D2760001240101000001000000A40000
Version ..........: 1.0
Manufacturer .....: PPC Card Systems
Serial number ....: 000000A4
Name of cardholder: Thomas Huehn
Language prefs ...: de
Sex ..............: unspecified
URL of public key : [not set]
Login data .......: [not set]
Signature PIN ....: not forced
Max. PIN lengths .: 254 254 254
PIN retry counter : 3 3 3
Signature counter : 8
Signature key ....: 7A72 DC96 5ED2 FD2E 91A0  D652 1DDB 9E21 A673 64E8
Encryption key....: E7A3 80EB E03F 94DD ECC4  4087 D47A 3140 10C5 A5D7
Authentication key: C9F2 08EC 2191 2782 0C3F  5892 07C0 AAD1 0595 E5E0
General key info..: [none]
huehnts at blackbox:~$ LANG=C gpg2 --card-status
gpg: OpenPGP card not available: Unknown IPC command
huehnts at blackbox:~$ LANG=C gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.6
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA
Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2
huehnts at blackbox:~$ LANG=C gpg2 --version
gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.3
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA, ELG
Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, TIGER192, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2


How can I get gpg2 to detect my smartcard? Do I have to find out what
scdaemon exactly does and how to configure it? Or is that another problem?

Thanks
Thomas




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