Re: gnupg privicy assistant - card manager.

2014-09-01 Thread Paul Lewis 
On 01/09/14 07:37:45, Werner Koch wrote:
 On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 16:00, paul.le...@quadensemble.com said:
 
  I'd like to use the card manager function, but whenever I invoke it
  the application returns the error Error accessing the card, and 
  the status bar reports Checking for card .. 
 
 I have actually thank you for raising this issue:
 

My pleasure.

 The problem is that the gnome-keyring-dameon hijacks the inter 
 process communication (IPC) between gpg and gpg-agent.  It 
 implements a very limited set of commands of gpg-agent but nothing 
 more.  Recent versions of GnuPG detect this and show a warning 
 message or pop-up to tell you just this.
 
 Depending on the version of gnome-keyring-daemon, it is possible to
 disable the gpg-agent hijacking component.

I would be interested in how to accomplish this. If you can point me to 
a thread or reference in the gnupg manual, that would be appreciated.

  Unfortunately it is hard
 to convince the maintainer to disable this mis-features.


So Gnome breaks gnupg-agent and they will not fix it?


 See the mail thread starting with this mail for details:
 
  http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2014-August/028689.html
 
  I presume, the system is misconfigured is some way. Any one got any 
  suggestions?
 
 You may want to bring this to the attention of your Linux
 distribution. The solution could be easy: The gpg-agent component 
 needs to be disabled when build gnome-keyring-daemon:
 
   ./configure --disable-gpg-agent 

I prefer the gpg-agent UI. Anyway, Seahorse doesn't seem to know about 
smart cards so the whole reason I posted, to see my smart card in the 
card display of gpa  is defeated if I disable gpg-agent.

Unless I have the wrong end of the stick?

Regards

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gnupg privicy assistant - card manager.

2014-08-31 Thread Paul Lewis 

I hope this is the correct list to raise this issue at?

The GNU Privicy assistant seems to be working fine, when I start it I 
can see a list of my keys.

I'd like to use the card manager function, but whenever I invoke it the 
application returns the error Error accessing the card, and the 
status bar reports Checking for card .. 

Looking at my system logs, start to fill up with:

gnome-keyring-daemon[5531]: unrecognized command: SCD
gnome-keyring-daemon[5531]: unrecognized command: GETEVENTCOUNTER
gnome-keyring-daemon[5531]: unrecognized command: GETEVENTCOUNTER

The last two lines are repeated continiously until the card manager is 
closed.

Otherwise if I run gpg --card-status with a card in the USB card reader 
I get the following:

gpg: detected reader `Alcor Micro AU9540 00 00'
Application ID ...: D2760001240102051EAD
Version ..: 2.0
More stuff follows - but shows the card reader is functional.

At the command prompt I can enter the gpg --card-edit and read and edit 
the card parameters.

I presume, the system is misconfigured is some way. Any one got any 
suggestions?

Thanks
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