Unable to sign or decrypt with card

[martin]

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On 14/09/17 23:53, Philip Jackson wrote:
> Card status seems to be ok :
> 
> gpg --card-status
> Application ID ...: D2760001240102000005000028700000
> Version ..........: 2.0
> Manufacturer .....: ZeitControl
> Serial number ....: 00002870
> Name of cardholder: Philip Jackson
> Language prefs ...: en
> Sex ..............: male
> URL of public key : [not set]
> Login data .......: [not set]
> Private DO 1 .....: [not set]
> Private DO 2 .....: [not set]
> Signature PIN ....: forced
> Key attributes ...: 0R 0R 0R
> Max. PIN lengths .: 32 32 32
> PIN retry counter : 3 0 3
> Signature counter : 406
> Signature key ....: 60FF 4A45 7DD4 C4E2 CCAB  D98D 5154 49A8 9A99 D8BD
>       created ....: 2014-10-28 23:13:28
> Encryption key....: C04C 016C 3460 2B42 CDBB  2566 79D4 67BF F5DF 6C91
>       created ....: 2014-10-28 23:18:24
> Authentication key: [none]
> gpg: using subkey 0x515449A89A99D8BD instead of primary key
> 0x26BD500A23543A63
> General key info..: pub  2048R/0x515449A89A99D8BD 2014-10-28 Philip
> Jackson (Jan 2013 +) <philip.jackson at nordnet.fr>
> sec   2048R/0x26BD500A23543A63  created: 2013-01-22  expires: never
> ssb   2048R/0x2ACB19812A3EC90F  created: 2013-01-22  expires: never
> ssb>  2048R/0x515449A89A99D8BD  created: 2014-10-28  expires: never
>                       card-no: 0005 00002870
> ssb>  2048R/0x79D467BFF5DF6C91  created: 2014-10-28  expires: never
>                       card-no: 0005 00002870

Hi Philip,

A few weeks ago I experienced a very similar problem to what you
describe. I was not able to sign any of my mail with my smart card and I
was unable to decrypt files.

Output of my gpg --card-status showed the same:
Key attributes ...: 0R 0R 0R
...
sec   rsa4096/0x7BDDCD7C31F200DC  created: 2015-11-24  expires:..

I have the exact same card reader at home and when running the status
command I would get:

Key attributes ...: rsa4096 rsa4096 rsa4096
...
sec>  rsa4096/0x7BDDCD7C31F200DC  created: 2015-11-24  expires: 2017-11-23
                                  card-no: 0005 0000426B

So I just re-checked my card reader at work. As I use the Gemalto PC
Twin Reader it turned out that the connection between the USB cable and
the card reader was slightly loose. Afterwards I was able to use my card
as before.

I would suggest (if you haven't tried that already). To try a different
machine and/or a different reader combos and see if the problem is not a
trivial faulty reader.

Regards,
Martin
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