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Smartcard: Broken scdaemon on Monterey 12.1 / M1 processor

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Joseph Miller

05 Jan, 2022 12:20 AM

Upgraded to 2021.3. Try to run

gpg2 --card-status

and I get

gpg: error getting version from 'scdaemon': No SmartCard daemon
gpg: OpenPGP card not available: No SmartCard daemon`

After a lot of mucking around, I changed gpg-agent.conf to include

scdaemon-program  /usr/local/MacGPG2/libexec/scdaemon

And at least now card status works

The one at /opt/homebrew/Cellar/gnupg/2.3.4/libexec/scdaemon seems quite broken

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1. 1 Posted by Joseph Miller on 05 Jan, 2022 02:07 AM

   

   Update: However, signing commits, other actions etc are still quite broken:

   error: gpg failed to sign the data
   fatal: failed to write commit object
   

   gpg2 --card-status
   
   Reader ...........: Yubico YubiKey OTP FIDO CCID
   Application ID ...: D2760001240103040006137057520000
   Application type .: OpenPGP
   Version ..........: 3.4
   Manufacturer .....: Yubico
   Serial number ....: 13705752
   Name of cardholder: [not set]
   Language prefs ...: [not set]
   Salutation .......:
   URL of public key : [not set]
   Login data .......: [not set]
   Signature PIN ....: not forced
   Key attributes ...: rsa4096 rsa2048 rsa2048
   Max. PIN lengths .: 127 127 127
   PIN retry counter : 3 0 3
   Signature counter : 1729
   KDF setting ......: off
   Signature key ....: 2FBD D453 BFCB 59C5 67BD  8B33 F29D F6B7 FAEF 0DE3
         created ....: 2020-11-12 11:55:24
   Encryption key....: [none]
   Authentication key: [none]
   General key info..: pub  rsa4096/F29DF6B7FAEF0DE3 2020-11-12 Joseph Miller <[email blocked]>
   sec>  rsa4096/F29DF6B7FAEF0DE3  created: 2020-11-12  expires: 2025-01-01
                                   card-no: 0006 13705752
   ssb   rsa4096/9CC0F27EF145C545  created: 2020-11-12  expires: 2025-01-01
   

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2. 2 Posted by Joseph Miller on 06 Jan, 2022 04:03 AM

   

   Actually, we can probably close off this one. I had installed the pass package, which as a dependency, installed the gnupg package, which was messing with the gpg-suite set up.

   How frustrating!

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Steve on 12 Jan, 2022 11:12 PM

   

   HI Joseph,

   glad to hear you were already able to figure this one out.

   I'm closing this discussion. Should you need further assistance or have questions you can re-open this discussion here or open a new one any time.

   Best,
   Steve

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4. Steve closed this discussion on 12 Jan, 2022 11:12 PM.