OpenPGP smartcard reader

[Robert J. Hansen]

> GNOME implements its own gpg-agent... badly... in ways that break
> smartcards.  I've heard they've recently fixed it, but as of 14.04 the
> broken GNOME behavior was still in place.  Search for GNOME and
> gpg-agent in these archives and you should find a solution.

And there's a wiki page for it, too:

http://wiki.gnupg.org/GnomeKeyring


Also see Simon Josefsson's writeup:

http://blog.josefsson.org/2015/01/02/openpgp-smartcards-and-gnome/


This misbehavior has been reported to Debian and Ubuntu:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=773304


... Hope these links help!