OpenPGP card, gpgsm, decrypt

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Mon Sep 23 22:34:36 CEST 2013


On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 20:23, peter at digitalbrains.com said:

> I think I see what's going wrong here. On my card, OPENPGP.3 refers to the
> authentication key. If you are trying to use this to decrypt stuff, the card
> will outright refuse. Only the encryption key of the card will decrypt stuff,

Right.  We should add more checks here.

This missing check is good for noticing that the "Existing key from
card" feature is actually used ;-).  I added the feature to create an
X.509 key from the OpenPGP card.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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