OpenPGP card: how to lock the card again so that PIN is required

Matthias Apitz guru at unixarea.de
Wed Jan 2 11:58:50 CET 2019


El día miércoles, enero 02, 2019 a las 11:36:54a. m. +0100, Werner Koch escribió:

> On Tue,  1 Jan 2019 08:36, guru at unixarea.de said:
> 
> > with the OpenPGP card (HID Global OMNIKEY 6121 Smart Card Reader) after
> 
> Take care: Usual Omnikey problems with creating and using large keys
> apply.

Thanks. But I'm using this card and reader for a long time. And the same problem is
with the uTrust reader.

> > How can I meanwhile 'reset' the OpenPGP card so that on next request for
> > the secrets (decrypt, signing, ssh) the PIN is requested?
> 
>   gpgconf --reload scdaemon
> 
> is the easiest way.  You can also use --kill as it is the same for
> scdaemon.

THANKS!!! This works and I now at least can disable the card when I go a
way from the laptop.

BTW: The CCID and the readers have no manuals how, i.e. in which
directions, one has to insert the CCID. Yesterday I took pictures to
have this clear now :-)

	matthias

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