On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 13:43, John Scott said: >> PIN retry counter : 2 0 3 > It looks like you're trying to decrypt a file and your encryption PIN counter > is zero. I wonder why it was giving you the strange error message.
No, it is not at zero. Since OpenPGP card specification version 2 we only have two PINs and not a separate one for the encryption key. Thus the the secund number is always zero. Well, not always: If you set a reset code the second retry counter is set to 3. Such a reset code is an alternative to the Admin PIN. If an organization does not want to hand out the Admin PIN a reset code is instead set and the user can use that reset code to unblock they PIN. The show error code is indeed either a hardware error (EEPROM failure) or due to a card reader which filters certyain commands send to the card and return a bogus error code. However, I doubt that the latter is the case. In any case, it is best to try a different reader and if possible a different machine. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.
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