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alexanderbertram at gmail

Jul 20, 2009, 1:07 AM

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OpenPGP Smartcard and MacOS

Dear Sir or Madam,

I would like to use my OpenPGP Smartcard with MacOS.

I have some experience to manage this Smartcard in a Windows Environment,
with the help of Thunderbird and its Add-On ENIGMAIL.
Among Windows there was no difficulty to generate a keypair on a Smartcard,
I did not even have to use any command line syntax...

I have already installed these programs in Mac OS too, but unfortunately do
not encounter any Option to manage a Smartcard.
I am using my old KOBIL USB Smartcard-Reader (secOVID Reader plus) with pin
pad that should be sufficient (it already worked fine with
Thunderbird/Enigmail in Windows).

Do I maybe have to use some other programs?
Does anyone have an idea how to solve this issue?

- how can I generate an asymmetric keypair on an OpenPGP Smartcard on an Mac
OS X Environment ?
- do I need any other Driver/Progs?
- are there any Live-Linux Systems that unite all the necessary programs in
one OS?

I appreciate for any help,

Alex

reynt0 at cs

Jul 20, 2009, 1:07 PM

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Re: OpenPGP Smartcard and MacOS [In reply to]

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Alexander Bertram wrote:
. . .
> - how can I generate an asymmetric keypair on an OpenPGP
> Smartcard on an Mac OS X Environment ?
. . .

Maybe this should be a separate thread, but I'll ask here
since it may affect the poster's activities.

Beginning with OS 10.4, Apple's EULA (maybe some Microsoft
too, I don't know those EULAs) includes wording that can be
interpreted as saying that they claim the right for themselves
or their associates to take any information they want from your
computer at any time they want. The OS 10.5 EULA adds wording
that may be saying they can change your Mac's programs anyway
they want anytime they want. There has been some discussion about
the 10.4 EULA at <http://www.eulascan.com/product.aspx?pid=22>.

Could your computer's memory contents be saved while you are
en/decrypting, and then sent off to someone? Could the gpg
executable be modified to let people evesdrop or something?
And all OK according to the EULA?

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benjamin at py-soft

Jul 20, 2009, 1:34 PM

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Re: OpenPGP Smartcard and MacOS [In reply to]

2009/7/20 Alexander Bertram <alexanderbertram [at] gmail>:
> I would like to use my OpenPGP Smartcard with MacOS.

Take a look at MacGPG2 - http://macgpg2.sourceforge.net

Ben

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