How to reset the PIN counter

Pete Stephenson pete at heypete.com
Sun Feb 8 07:35:44 CET 2015


On Feb 7, 2015 10:36 PM, "Duplicity Mailing List" <
duplicitymailinglist at mail.ru> wrote:
>
> On 07/02/15 20:45, Rainer Keller wrote:
> >> I save the reset code block to a text file ("reset.txt") and then run "
> >> gpg-connect-agent < reset.txt". Remove and reinsert the card and it
should
> >> be back to factory defaults.
> > Unfortunatly this seemed to brick the card.
> > "gpg: OpenPGP card not available: Not supported"
> > Gnupg does not detect the card anymore.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Rainer
>
> What version was your card? It should work fine on a 2.0 smart card,
> but, it's by design made to brick 1.X cards. Pete probably should have
> warned you about this first.

In retrospect I should have, but the output of gpg --card-edit Rainer
posted showed he was using a version 2 card so it should be ok. My
apologies for any confusion.
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