Re: gnupg and smartcard - recovery issues

2009-10-29 Thread listac
First of all, thanks very much for your time. That is because you copied the key to the card and the on-disk key is still available. Use gpg --delete-secret-key KEYID to remove the secret parts of the key. The run gpg --card-status so that gpg can create a secret key stub which

Re: gnupg and smartcard - recovery issues

2009-10-29 Thread listac
All I have is the cryptical_name.gpg on some rescued USB stick. Just, how do I get this key back on my card please? Import the public key and run gpg --edit-key KEYID the enter the command bkuptocard. Thanks to the help of Mr. Donnachie I am now able to run gnupg2 under linux, even

Re: gnupg and smartcard - recovery issues

2009-10-28 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:49, lis...@nebelschwaden.de said: Scenario 1: I remove the card and try to decrypt a file. Decrypting still works without a card being inserted and the password instead of the PIN. Ok, That is because you copied the key to the card and the on-disk key is still

gnupg and smartcard - recovery issues

2009-10-27 Thread listac
Hello, I am currently struggeling with smartcard and gnupg. The basic stuff works, but where it gets interesting the howtos I've found end and I am not able to figure out how to do it correctly: Scenario 1: I have created a key on the disk (ordinary way, without card) and now decide, that I