Re: [Tails-dev] PGP Smart Cards

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Author: Patrick Bx
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Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] PGP Smart Cards
>On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 6:24 PM, intrigeri <intrigeri@???> wrote:
> Maxim Kammerer wrote (25 Aug 2012 19:59:33 GMT) :
>> Hi, what's the big deal about having support for PGP SmartCards?
>
> We had not included such software yet due to lack of hardware for
> testing if it would actually be useful at all.
>
> Patrick reports that software newer than what's in Debian Squeeze is
> needed for their hardware. Hence the need for a backport.


Yup, I needed smart card packages for my own purposes and Tails had
already been interested in supporting this.

>OK. I suggest kindly asking the maintainer of these two Debian
>packages to prepare and upload updated versions to squeeze-backports:


I just emailed Ludovic and CC'd you. A squeeze-backport would
definitely be the right solution until Wheezy is here. I'll try my
hand at it if Ludovic doesn't respond.

As Clean Room develops hopefully we can merge some of the work from
that back into tails. I know I will use the pcscd packages in Tails
for pgp mail when I don't have access to my own computer.

Regards,

Patrick