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

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Tue 2017-03-14 03:19:05 -0400, Micha Borrmann wrote:
> 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.

I don't understand this problem.  Can you elaborate more on why the PIN
cannot be piped to GnuPG 2 ?  Are you using --pinentry-mode=loopback
and --passphrase-fd ?  what error messages are you getting?

> 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?

You'll need to ensure that scdaemon and gpg-agent and gpg are all
available in the initramfs at least.

          --dkg