Gpgtools MacGPG2

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  Luke Le June 5th, 2013 @ 09:18 PM

  • Importance changed from “” to “Low”

  Hi Michael,

  thanks for reporting this.
  For some reason, MacGPG2 2.0.20 doesn't include scdaemon.
  Since we don't have any smart card to test with, we're not always checking if it's there.
  Will fix this now, and update this ticket.

  Out of interest, which smart card did you buy?

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  Luke Le June 5th, 2013 @ 09:23 PM

  • State changed from “new” to “started”

  Oooh, it's been moved into libexec, and that's why it's not included in our nightly.

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  Michael Holley June 5th, 2013 @ 10:16 PM

  Thanks for the reply. I got the card from Kernel Concepts (http://shop.kernelconcepts.de/product_info.php?cPath=1_26&produ...). I got the card without the breakout and without the RFID, though I was tempted to get the RFID one just for kicks and giggles. I also got my card reader, SCM Microsystems SCR 3500, from Amazon since it can do OpenPGP and CAC ID cards (http://www.amazon.com/New-Portable-Contact-Reader-SCR3500/dp/B004RL...).
  After opening this ticket, I kept messing around and found a solution. It may be useful for you guys going forward so I'll give you the outline of what I did to get it to work.

  1. I downloaded and installed the driver for the reader and openSC 0.13.0. For openSC I had to use their nightly build (https://www.opensc-project.org/downloads/macosx/) since the stable versions don't install in Mountain Lion.
     
  2. I downloaded the nightly build of GPGTools (based on this comment on this discussion: http://support.gpgtools.org/discussions/everything/1587-smartcard-c...)
     
  3. I downloaded the existing stable version of GPGTools from the homepage
     
  4. I installed the nightly build of GPGTools
     
  5. Using Pacifist (http://pacifist.en.softonic.com/), I installed just scdaemon from the stable build of GPGTools
     
  6. Based on the comment on this wiki (https://www.opensc-project.org/opensc/wiki/OpenPGP#MacOSX), I removed (renamed) OpenSC.tokend/ from /System/Library/Security/tokend
     
  7. Rebooted my machine and then used this site (http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/card-howto/en/smartcard-howto-single.ht...) to guide the setup of the card

  It works just fine now, even in Mail.app! Thanks for all your hard work on providing these tools for the Mac.

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  Luke Le June 5th, 2013 @ 10:19 PM

  • State changed from “started” to “fixed”
  • Milestone cleared.

  Ooh, very interesting, thanks for the guide!
  We'll have to get ourselves a card to test with.

  Also, we'll make a knowledge base article with that info

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  Luke Le June 6th, 2013 @ 01:39 AM

  Michael, one question, did you put scdaemon into /usr/local/MacGPG2/bin or /usr/local/MacGPG2/libexec?

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  Luke Le June 18th, 2013 @ 02:51 PM

  Hi Michael,

  just a follow up. There'S a new nightly build now which fixes path problems with scdaemon,
  and everything should work now as expected.