Fwd: OpenPGP card problem

[Fabrizio Furnari]

Hi, just to inform that I've tried also on windows with the correct drivers
for the card reader and the last version of gnupg for windows...
Is there anybody out with the same problem/a solution?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Fabrizio Furnari <fab.furnari at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:22 AM
Subject: OpenPGP card problem
To: gnupg-users at gnupg.org


Hi to all,
I've just subscripted this list after a few days spent looking for a
solution to my problem:
I've just bought a OpenPGP card and a card reader (SCR 335) to use with my
Ubuntu 9.04 laptop.
I've installed the udev scripts, as explained in the fsfe howto (
http://wiki.fsfe.org/Card_howtos/Card_reader_setup_(udev)<http://wiki.fsfe.org/Card_howtos/Card_reader_setup_%28udev%29>
).
I've used gpg to set-up the first data on the card: Name, Language, PIN,
etc, but when I've tried to change the Admin PIN the behaviour of the
software became strange; mainly gpg doesn't want to change the PIN, nor the
Admin PIN.
I paste an example:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
gpg --change-pin
gpg: detected reader `SCM SCR 335 00 00'
gpg: OpenPGP card no. D27600012401020000050XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX detected

1 - change PIN
2 - unblock PIN
3 - change Admin PIN
Q - quit

Your selection? 1

PIN

New PIN

New PIN
Error changing the PIN: invalid argument
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I'm sure the pin is correct...if I try to unblock it I this:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
gpg: 3 Admin PIN attempts remaining before card is permanently locked

Admin PIN

New PIN

New PIN
Error unblocking the PIN: general error

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Also i I try to change the admin PIN (wich is still the default one) I
obtain a "invalid argument"...
I suspect that gpg wants to change the CHV2 PIN, in fact if I intentionally
put in a wrong (alphabetic) pin I obtain:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PIN
gpg: PIN for CHV2 is too short; minimum length is 6
Error changing the PIN: bad passphrase
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and if I try with gpg --card-status this is a strange line:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
...
PIN retry counter : 3 0 3
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Should be 3 3 3, is that correct?

I don't know what to do, what do you think about?
These are the packages installed on my linux box:

ii  gnupg                                      1.4.9-3ubuntu1
rc  gnupg-agent                                2.0.9-3.1
ii  gnupg-pkcs11-scd                           0.06-4
ii  python-gnupginterface

Many thanks,

Fabrizio
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rand(2)if/\S/;print
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