Generating smart-card stubs on a clean computer?

Doug Barton dougb at dougbarton.us
Wed Sep 1 04:56:26 CEST 2010


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On 8/31/2010 6:34 PM, Grant Olson wrote:
| I can find docs on generating a key on a smart card, and migrating an
| existing key to the smart card.  But I can't figure out how to configure
| the smart card on a clean machine that never had my secret keys.
|
| The card has both signing and encryption keys on it.  The drivers are
| installed.  I'm running gpg2 (via gpg4win) on a Windows XP box.
|
| --card-status and --card-edit work.  But if I try to sign something, I'm
| told I don't have any secret keys.  How do I get stubs to show up in the
| local gpg configuration?
|
| Does anyone know how I can do this?

If you run 'gpg --edit-key 0xyourkeyid' does it show that the key is
ultimately trusted? If not, edit your trust level and try again.


Doug
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