Package: gnupg
Version: 1.4.2-2
Severity: normal
Hi,
I have an OpenGPG smart card with its own subkeys (for encryption and
signing). Since I often don't have my smart card available (for
instance, I might be using ssh from my laptop home, as I read all my
mail there), I've set the non-smart card subkey as my default key in
.gnupg/options:
default-key 52B7487E!
However, most programs I use (including mutt) are not particularily
subkey aware, and can only specify the key, without forcing a specific
subkey:
trofast:~# echo test | gpg -u 52b7487e --sign
gpg: pcsc_connect failed: unknown reader (0x8019)
gpg: card reader not available
*** glibc detected *** corrupted double-linked list: 0x2b36e6d8 ***
zsh: done echo test |
zsh: abort gpg -u 52b7487e --sign
Since I can't find any good way of specifying which subkey should be the
default (gpg just picks the newest one, which is rather annoying,
especially when others send me encrypted e-mail -- but Werner Koch
claims that's not a bug, but a feature :-) ), there should at least be
some sort of fallback here; when it can't find my smart card, it should
fall back to the original (older) subkey, which has a good old-fashioned
pass phrase.
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