Re: [Tails-dev] PGP Smart Cards

Hi,

> From: intrigeri <intrigeri@???>
> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:24:53 +0200
>
> 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.
>
Just to share experience: I tested an OpenPGP smartcard reader on Tails.
The required packages were installer *but* there were permission issues
that prevented gnupg from reading the smardcard without being root. For
root however it worked fine.

Cheers


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