The pinentry counter information should be added to the view.
Maybe we should add a new subsection for this?
When redesign is necessary keep T6420 in mind which relates to the action buttons in that view, which might need another row.
See also T7018: Kleopatra: Separate smartcard window with simplified layout.
| rKLEOPATRA Kleopatra | |||
| rKLEOPATRAcc90b5e598bb Update label and add tool tip for the PIN counters | |||
| rKLEOPATRA7dd02a4962f2 Trigger a smart card update if a smart card command failed | |||
| rKLEOPATRA394f2eb16cc3 Ensure that the PIN counters are updated when they changed | |||
| rKLEOPATRAf29b9ab161ee Show the PIN retry counters for OpenPGP smart cards | |||
| Status | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T6785 Kleopatra: Improvements related to smart cards | ||
| Testing | • ikloecker | T6787 Kleopatra: Add pinentry counters to smart card management view |
I gathered the CHV-STATUS information of a few cards.
For OpenPGP v2+ (?) the CHV-STATUS values are well-defined: 7 integers where the last 3 are the retry counters. Examples:
Other cards can have arbitrary many counters; some also provide labels for the counters:
I doubt that it makes much sense to show normal users the "random" counters of the other cards. I will first implement it for OpenPGP cards only.
Done. This is how it looks like:
I'm wondering whether "PIN counters:" would be sufficient as label. We may anyway want to add a tool tip to explain what the counters actually mean. And/Or we document this in the manual.
I'd say "PIN counters:" is enough in combination with a tool tip. An additional documentation in a manual is always nice, of course. But do we really need the "PIN" here? As long as after the colon PIN, PUK, etc is listed, I think we could drop it here and say "Retry counters"
One could also contemplate using something like "No. of tries left".
gpg uses "Remaining attempts:" for the pinentry. I'll use this also in Kleopatra so that the users can more easily recognize that this is the same information.