Re: [Tails-dev] Tails Offline GPG Smart card Support

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Autore: intrigeri
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Hi,

Jonathan Brown wrote (21 Aug 2014 23:41:38 GMT) :
> Tails is the defacto standard when security is needed especially the live
> version. This distribution lives and breaths on using GPG as well you
> please add the few Debian packages required to create and manage GPG Smart
> Cards to generate keys while the computer is offline with no internet
> access.


> The packages are already in Debian and it would really help security not
> having to worry about potentially contaminating the offline PC with malware
> especially with the new USB vulnerabilities. I have attached an article I
> found on how to add support but would kill to see this implemented in the
> next release.


> https://gist.github.com/abeluck/3383449


These instructions are outdated, and refer to the versions of Tails
that were based on Squeeze, and did not include pcscd yet. I think
that this situation was fixed in Tails 0.17.

So: what exactly are you missing in current Tails?

Cheers,
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intrigeri