[Enigmail] Enigmail fails with GnuPG2 + OpenPGP Card

Patrick Brunschwig patrick at mozilla-enigmail.org
Wed Jul 22 23:45:58 PDT 2009


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Stefan Xenon wrote:
> Hi!
> I use GnuPG2 and tried to generate a key on the OpenPGP Card.
> Unfortunately it failed with the error message "unbekannter Fehler bei
> Schlüsselgenerierung" (unknown error). The Enigmail console tells me the
> following command is executed:
> 
> C:\Program Files\GNU\GnuPG2\gpg2.exe --charset utf8 --no-tty --status-
> fd 1 --logger-fd 1 --command-fd 0 --with-colons --card-edit
> 
> It works on the same system when configuring Enigmail to use GnuPG v1.
> So maybe an compatibility issue with GnuPG v2?

Yes, an incompatibility with GnuPG v2. I have fixed this a few days ago.

In order to use gpg2, you will need a trunk version of Enigmail. Please
also note that generating keys and administration of GnuPG cards is
broken in Enigmail v0.96.0; it will be fixed in the next version of
Enigmail.

- -Patrick
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