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It would be nice if it were possible to use a smartcard directly, without going through the secret keyring for key selection, as it requires me to have a "pseudo" secret key present on the system I wish to use it on.

It would be nice to have --card-sign and --card-decrypt functions that would query the card for the appropriate key and simply use it, and a function --card-get-secret-stub to generate a stub key that can be imported into the secring.

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Makes sense but not easy to implement. What we are thinking
of is to use a card as last resort in case a public key is
available but the secret one not.

taken. however won't happen for 1.4.1

Smartcard support has greatly been enhacned and several bugs fixed. This
feature would thus be more or less useless.

werner removed a project: Stalled.
werner added a project: Too Old.