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Some problems between GnuPG and Smart Card
After three days of hard work, I solved the problem of sending mail using the OpenPGP/MIME protocol on the software. Now this email will not cause reading troubles.If there is anything wrong, please point it out, thank you.

Now, I am here to raise a question. Recently, I have encountered many problems in adapting the graphical interface interaction between Yubikey and gnupg. I am thinking about why some settings need to be manually added to some additional settings. I have used almost all mainstream systems to communicate between my smart card and GnuPG, and found that some settings need to be added to the scdaemon configuration, or some other related libraries need to be installed. For some ordinary users who use smart cards, these unintuitive settings, or problems related to them, may undermine their confidence in continuing to use them.

I found that there are many such solutions on the Internet, the problem I encountered has also been encountered by many others. Is there any way that scdaemon can automatically recognize these situations and add appropriate settings. Or is there any mechanism that allows ordinary users to avoid these problems that they don't understand? I plug in the smart card and can edit card or move to card without doing any other operations. The above work I have done is mainly to show the writing operation intuitively to users through a graphical interface in the future, instead of letting them use the command line. However, these additional settings make me have to think that even if I make a suitable graphical interface, it may not work properly due to some setting problems that I don't know about.

I had to temporarily suspend my plan and then turn to you for help.
Re: Some problems between GnuPG and Smart Card [ In reply to ]
Am Mittwoch 05 Januar 2022 09:08:59 schrieb eric@bktus.com:
> I have encountered many problems in adapting the graphical interface
> interaction between Yubikey and gnupg. I am thinking about why some
> settings need to be manually added to some additional settings. I have used
> almost all mainstream systems to communicate between my smart card and
> GnuPG, and found that some settings need to be added to the scdaemon
> configuration, or some other related libraries need to be installed.

Please describe the problems
and the settings you have found each in greater detail.
(Or refer to more detaile descriptions.)

In some situations scdaemon (and other parts of GnuPG) can be improved
in other situations there is a different solution.
Thus the details matter.

Best
Bernhard


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