“Hardware problem” with OpenPGP smart card

[Werner Koch]

On Sat,  5 Dec 2020 15:20, Nicolas Boullis said:

> gpg: public key decryption failed: Hardware problem
> gpg: decryption failed: No secret key

To make sure that this is really the card (or reader), I'd like to ask
you to put

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
log-file /some/path/scd.log
verbose
debug cardio
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

into scdaemon.conf.  Kill scdaemon.conf and retry. You should see a line
with status code 0x6581 (EEPROM FAILURE) in response to a VERIFY (00 20
... PIN) APDU or a PSO (00 2A ....) APDU.  If that is the case you are
probably out of luck.  It is a rare thing; iirc, I recall one other
report about a hardware failure.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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