Card Reader on Cherry Keyboard (omnikey) with OpenPGP Smart Card

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Tue Aug 9 15:31:37 CEST 2011


On Tue,  9 Aug 2011 12:04, oleksandr.shneyder at obviously-nice.de said:

> I have issues using OpenPGP smart cards from "kernel concepts" with
> omnikey card reader integrated in Cherry keyboard (Cherry XX44 USB keyboard)

Omnikey based readers don't work with that card because the readers
don't support Extended Length APDUs.  Well, under Windows they work
because their driver uses undocumented tricks to do it.  I tried to the
same in GnuPG's internal driver but that is not really reliable.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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