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Kleopatra: Remove "Create OpenPGP key" from OpenPGP smart card tab
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The possibility to create an OpenPGP certificate for the keys on an OpenPGP smart card was added with T5125. We decided to remove it again because usually people will directly generate keys and a certificate with the "Generate new keys" function. Experts generating the keys on the OpenPGP card differently can use gpg to create an OpenPGP certificate.

Using this functionality to create an OpenPGP certificate for the card keys if there is already a corresponding OpenPGP certificate will cause chaos and confusion because both certificates will have the same fingerprint and Kleopatra will show only one of the two certificates (because they are internally indexed by the fingerprint). Similarly, gpg uses the fingerprint to uniquely identify certificates.

Event Timeline

ikloecker created this task.
ikloecker changed the task status from Open to Testing.May 8 2024, 2:50 PM
ikloecker moved this task from Restricted Project Column to Restricted Project Column on the Restricted Project board.
ikloecker moved this task from Backlog to WiP on the vsd33 board.
ebo moved this task from Restricted Project Column to Restricted Project Column on the Restricted Project board.

In Version 3.2.2.2405000+git~ (Gpg4win-4.3.2-beta25) the button is not shown any more.
As it was already not shown in VSD 3.2.2, closing this for all workboards

ebo edited projects, added vsd33 (vsd-3.3.0); removed vsd33.