Re: GnuPG usage for automatic remote decryption

2018-04-05 Thread gnupg-users . dirk
Hello Ken, basically what you trying to archive is difficult. I can only comment on " * To encrypt the file by a public key" since frankly I think the second option does not exist unless you are talking about symetrical crypto. Two points:     A) You could try to automatically ssh into the

Re: OpenPGP-Card v3.3 - ECC Curve25519 supported?

2018-03-20 Thread gnupg-users . dirk
Hello Karel, I do not recommend buying it. There is a bug in case of someone trying to send you 3DES  encrytped messages [1][2]. As well it is not really backward compatible and there is no real documentation how to fix this except of [3] However Documentation does not state curve25519 but

Re: Changing PINs of German bank card

2017-07-10 Thread gnupg-users . dirk
since german bankingcards / even girocard should comply to EMV Standard a change of PIN via Issuer Script should be possible - if the issuer - your bank - supports it. FYI: You have to change the PIN in the Card for offline validation and the PIN stored in the issuers backed. In e.g. switerland

Re: Alternatives for Omnikey

2017-01-09 Thread gnupg-users . dirk
Hi Teemu, thanks - I looked at those before. I guess I just have a prefernce for the Card's - I can not really point the finger to - why. best regards Dirk On 07.01.2017 07:33, Teemu Likonen wrote: > gnupg-users dirk [2017-01-06 10:06:40+01] wrote: > >> I was under the impression

Re: gpg-agent has to be restarted after GnuPG SmartCard pulled from reader

2017-01-06 Thread gnupg-users . dirk
Hi all, thank you Damien and Werner for your recent replies. Even if the reader is performing o.k. now to my amassment. When I used the feature to create the keys on the card I ran to some strange and not reproducible problems. I think this is what Werner refers to. Once I decided to create the

Re: gpg-agent has to be restarted after GnuPG SmartCard pulled from reader

2017-01-06 Thread gnupg-users . dirk
Hi Andrew, thanks for you input. And I will gave it a try. 1) deactivated my script 2) added udev rule ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="076b", ATTR{idProduct}=="3022", RUN+="/usr/sbin/service pcscd restart" 3) testdrive - reader unplug - plug in (USB) Jan 06 13:55:00 compd

Re: Re: gpg-agent has to be restarted after GnuPG SmartCard pulled from reader

2017-01-06 Thread gnupg-users . dirk
Hi Kristian, it is not the reader (USB Device) which is removed. It is the Card in the reader. I would not know how to monitor this with udev. Is this possible ? Best regards Dirk On 06.01.2017 10:30, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: On 01/06/2017 10:06 AM, gnupg-users.d...@o.banes.ch wrote: >

Re: gpg-agent has to be restarted after GnuPG SmartCard pulled from reader

2017-01-06 Thread gnupg-users . dirk
Hi Werner, thanks for your reply. I was under the impression the OmniKey 3121 is a real reader since it is on the how to [1]. What would be a good alternative bevore I buy another bad one. And I have problems understanding how the issue is connected to the key length. The Problem as I see it

Re: gpg-agent has to be restarted after GnuPG SmartCard pulled from reader

2017-01-04 Thread gnupg-users . dirk
Hi Peter, thanks for you reply but it is now not working at all. Even if my reader - Ominkey 3121 is listed in you link. o.k. I removed pcscd and changed the scdaemon.conf to this: card-timeout 5 #disable-ccid debug-level basic log-file /home/dirk/scdaemon.log debug-ccid-driver scdaemon Log

gpg-agent has to be restarted after GnuPG SmartCard pulled from reader

2017-01-04 Thread gnupg-users . dirk
Hello all, I recently changed to the GnuPG Smartcard which in general works fine for eMail and for SSH authentication (on Ubuntu 16.10). The only problem I encountered was that when I pull the card from the reader and reinsert it the gpg-agent will not recover. I have to kill him gpgconf --kill