Re: OpenPGP card

[Adam Schreiber <sadam gnome org>]

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Loriano Storchi <redo thch unipg it> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>        I tried to use Seahorse with my OpenPGP card, but as far as I
> understand it does not work properly. In fact Seahorse is able to encrypt
> using the public key (this works because obviously a copy of the public key
> is stored in the public keyring), but is not able to decrypt using the
> corresponding private key ("stored" in the card). I would like to know: is
> this a "known" issue ? in case the answer is yes, are you currently working
> to solve it ?

Try not to think of it as a bug, but a missing feature.  There is a
GSoC proposal to work on adding smart card support, but no one's
currently working on it.

Cheers,

Adam