:-(( smart card no longer works

Stephan Beck stebe at mailbox.org
Sun Sep 11 19:50:00 CEST 2016



Peter Lebbing:
> On 10/09/16 20:56, Stephan Beck wrote:
> [...]
> It looks fine to me, I think you're getting confused by it referring to
> the key in several ways. Here's part of the output for "gpg2 -v -d" for me:
> 
>> gpg: public key is 73A33BEE
>> gpg: using subkey 73A33BEE instead of primary key DE500B3E
>> gpg: using subkey 73A33BEE instead of primary key DE500B3E
>> gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit RSA key, ID 73A33BEE, created 2009-11-12
>>       "Peter Lebbing <peter at digitalbrains.com>"
> 
> It first notices the key it is encrypted to is 73A33BEE, which is a
> subkey. Then it really wants me to know that it is using this subkey of
> the primary DE500B3E :-). Finally it shows the actual subkey it was
> encrypted to along with the primary User ID of the key as a whole.

Thanks, Peter. Yes, this referring to the key in several ways lead to my
confusion (and I didn't even try to reproduce the situation). But you
put your light and confusion is gone :-)

Cheers,

Stebe



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