gpgsm: certificate is not usable for signing

[Jan Eden]

Hi,

the problem might be related to issue 1644
(http://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg/issue1644), my cert is part of the
DFN-PKI.

- Jan

On 2015-01-15 10:23, Jan Eden wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently installed GnuPG 2.1 and successfully used gpgsm for about a
> week. This morning, signing messages with mutt failed, and the signature
> of received messages cannot be verified. Signing a test file reveals:
> 
> lbox:~ jan$ gpgsm --verbose --sign testfile.txt
> gpgsm: certificate is not usable for signing
> gpgsm: certificate is not usable for signing
> gpgsm: failed to open '/Users/jan/.gnupg/policies.txt': No such file or directory
> gpgsm: Note: non-critical certificate policy not allowed
> gpgsm: certificate not found: Ambiguous name
> gpgsm: certificate [...]
> gpgsm: checking the CRL failed: Not found
> gpgsm: validation model used: shell
> gpgsm: error creating signature: Not found <GpgSM>
> 
> I already tried restoring ~/.gnupg from a backup, without success. It
> looks like gpgsm does not find some intermediate certificate.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> - Jan