external pinpad, gnupg, SPR532 PinPad SmartCard Reader

[Werner Koch]

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:44, MichaelParker at gmx.de said:

>  I tried to setup an external smartcard reader with a pinpad and on gentoo I 
> don't get it to work. 
>  On an ubuntu-installation the pin isn't enterd by the external pinpad but by 
> the regualar keyboard and that works fine. 
>  On gentoo I'm asked to enter the pin on the pinpad of the reader. After 
> entering it doesn't find the secret key. 

You need to make sure to use the interal CCID driver and not pcscd.
This requires proper setting of the permissions as explained int the
smart card how to and that you don't run pcscd!

To test this you should enter

debug-ccid-driver
debug 2048
log-file /somewhere/scdaemon.log

into scdaemon.conf and kill a running scdaemon process.  Instead of
the log file you may also use watchgnupg as explained in the manual.

There is no support for PIN pads when using pcscd.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner