On Wed 2017-02-15 05:24:34 -0500, Werner Koch wrote: > On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 00:55, d...@fifthhorseman.net said: > >> * gpg 1.4 expects to connect directly to the active smartcard. 2.1 >> expects access to the smartcard to be mediated by the scdaemon >> process. I don't know what happens if both of these systems try to >> access a single smartcard concurrently, but i imagine it's not > > If gpg 1.4 can access the card via agent+scdaemon it uses these daemons > to access the card. Thus many things should work. > > If 1.4 can't do that it uses an old copy of the code used by scdaemon to > access the card. That code is old and thus a lot of things won't work. > > I can't suggest to use 1.4 with smardcards.
should we adjust the build of 1.4 in debian to patch out the direct
access of smartcards? if we use --disable-card-support during
./configure will that disable use of the agent for smartcards as well,
or will it just remove the direct access?
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