Re: smart card no longer works

On 09/09/2016 05:21 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> The last I checked, Ubuntu's stock install did not include smartcard > drivers. >> The good news is these can be easily installed via apt-get. The bad news > is I >> don't remember what the package name is. :( > > A little searching suggests tha

RE: smart card no longer works

> The last I checked, Ubuntu's stock install did not include smartcard drivers. > The good news is these can be easily installed via apt-get. The bad news is I > don't remember what the package name is. :( A little searching suggests that "sudo apt-get install gnupg-pkcs11-scd" is the magic you

RE: smart card no longer works

> 1. with gpg2 :gpg2 --card-status > gpg: error getting version from 'scdaemon': No SmartCard daemon > gpg: OpenPGP card not available: No SmartCard daemon The last I checked, Ubuntu's stock install did not include smartcard drivers. The good news is these can be easily installed via apt-get.

smart card no longer works

I have changed from Ubuntu 14.04 to a clean install of Ubuntu 16.04.1 This comes with gpg 1.4.20 and gpg2 2.1.11 as distro standards. I brought into the new installation my keyfiles and config files and trust.db The private-keys-v1.d directory is populated with a series of xyzzz12.key files

Re: Key Discovery Made Simple

On Wednesday 07 September 2016 22:20:42 Christopher Beck wrote: > Hi, > > just a (maybe) stupid question: the matching key to my recipient can be > fetched by keyservers and i determine the korrect key of all of the > (sometimes "wrong" keys") by vaidating the signatures according to the WoT. > So

Re: Key Discovery Made Simple

Hi Christopher, Christopher Beck: > Hi, > > just a (maybe) stupid question: the matching key to my recipient can be > fetched by keyservers and i determine the korrect key of all of the > (sometimes > "wrong" keys") by vaidating the signatures according to the WoT. So, what's > the benefit of th

Re: How do you backup your private keys?

On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 09:17:33AM +0200, Oliver Wiese wrote: > > I am a doctoral-student at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany and i am > interested in how people backup their private keys. Therefore, I run a short > survey with 10 multiple-choice questions and only 5 demographic questions. I

How do you backup your private keys?

Hi, I am a doctoral-student at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany and i am interested in how people backup their private keys. Therefore, I run a short survey with 10 multiple-choice questions and only 5 demographic questions. I will be glad if you take a short time to fill out my questions.