How to use a GnuPG card on multiple computers?

Urs Hunkeler urs.hunkeler at epfl.ch
Tue Oct 11 11:50:27 CEST 2011


Hi Werner,

Thanks a lot!

Cheers,
Urs


On 10/11/11 11:03 AM, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:37, urs.hunkeler at epfl.ch said:
>
>> gpg to use the card to encrypt my messages. How can I add such stubs
>> to my keyring on a different computer to point to existing keys on my
>> card without having to regenerate the keys (which would render the
> You insert the card on that other box and enter
>
>     $ gpg2 --card-edit
>
> this creates the stub.  To retrieve the public key you may now enter:
>
>     gpg/card>  fetch
>
> this uses the URL field of the card to retrieve the key.
>
>
> Salam-Shalom,
>
>     Werner
>




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