Re: gnome-keyring Problem with GnomeKeyring vs gpg-agent

[Martin Paljak <martin martinpaljak net>]

Hello,

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 22:28, Stef Walter <stefw collabora co uk> wrote:
> On 08/10/2011 03:15 PM, Martin Paljak wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> when trying to use gpg2 with a CryptoStick[1], I ran into a problem
>> which seems to relate to the gpg-agent in GnomeKeyring [2].
>
> I guess that's because the gnome-keyring agent doesn't (yet) support
> gnupg smart card operations.
>
> To disable the gnome-keyring agent you can run:
>
> $ gnome-session-properties
>
> And then uncheck 'GPG Password Agent', log out and log back in.
Thanks for the tip.


> Does anyone want to help complete this work? Anyone want to research if
> there's a way if we can integrate better with the gpg2 smart card agent?
> Is it available as a library that we could load, or perhaps some other
> form of integration?

Can't this be somehow solved with a passthrough mode? Meaning whatever
GnomeKeyring implementation does not understand, it forwards to the
"real" gpg-agent?

Martin