Importing an off-card backup of the encryption key of a Nitrokey fails with "no user ID"

2017-10-24 Thread sourcelime
Hi, I generated keys on a Nitrokey and have chosen the option to make an off-card backup of the encryption key: gpg: NOTE: backup of card key saved to `/home/archi/.gnupg/sk_26D728A8F09033F1.gpg' as described in: https://gnupg.org/howtos/card-howto/en/smartcard-howto-single.html#id2506175

Importing an off-card backup of the encryption key of a Nitrokey fails with "no user ID"

2017-10-24 Thread Ralf
Hi, I generated keys on a Nitrokey and have chosen the option to make an off-card backup of the encryption key: gpg: NOTE: backup of card key saved to `/home/archi/.gnupg/sk_26D728A8F09033F1.gpg' as described in: https://gnupg.org/howtos/card-howto/en/smartcard-howto-single.html#id2506175

Re: Importing an off-card backup of the encryption key of a Nitrokey fails with "no user ID"

2017-10-24 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 21:23, sourcel...@mailbox.org said: > but I had hoped that it is possible to use the backup key without a > card. Any hints here, is this possible? There is no tool yet to do this. Let's track this at https://dev.gnupg.org/T3466 Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken s