[pkg-gnupg-maint] missing feature in gnupg1 (1.4.21-3)

[Micha Borrmann]

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Hello,

thank you for the email. I use GnuPG 2 mostly. However, I use storage encryption with GnuPG and smartcard and until now I was not able to use GnuPG with Smartcard in initramfs. The major problem is, that the PIN cannot be piped to GnuPG 2 and it was not possible for me to use pinentry-tty within initramfs. If this problem is solved, I do not need GnuPG 1 anymore. Do you have any hints to run GnuPG 2 with smart card in initramfs?

Thanks for helpful hints.

Regards,

Micha Borrmann

Am 14.03.2017 um 03:35 schrieb Daniel Kahn Gillmor:
> On Wed 2017-03-08 10:42:28 -0500, Micha Borrmann wrote:
>> last week the updated version was available in Debian unstable. The possibility to use a smart card is not available anymore:
>  […]
>> It would be nice to enable the possibility to use a smart card with gpg1.
> 
> Support for smartcards on gpg1 was deliberately removed with this
> release.  Upstream is really only actively maintaining the 2.1.x branch
> for smartcards, and gpg1 is likely to interfere with the use of
> smartcards on 2.1.x.
> 
> If you want to use smartcards with the stock debian packages, i
> recommend converting to the default gnupg, which is the 2.1.x branch,
> and installing scdaemon.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>         --dkg

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