PuTTY 0.73 - Hackdot

Re:PuTTY 0.73 by denton-scratch on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @01:52PM (#21128452)

I haven't used Putty with a smartcard for a while (about a year); but I certainly didn't have to use a fork. The card was a FSF GnuPG card.

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Re:PuTTY 0.73 by alibert on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @02:39PM (#21129041)

I don't know, I'm still have a vanilla PuTTY and I can't make it work with my Yubikey (PIV mode). There is no setting or anything related to SmartCard or PIV.

I'm no expert on this so I may have missed something.

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Re:PuTTY 0.73 by denton-scratch on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @03:24PM (#21129514)

Ah. It looks like you have to rely on gpg-agent; gpg-agent understands cards (and PIN-entry). PuTTY knows how to talk to gpg-agent (which simply replaces Pageant).

Except I remember ending up with multiple copies of gpg-agent running, for no obvious reason (which had to be killed before I could start a session - hmm. Maybe I remember finding this solution annoying). I think support for PIN-entry had its own annoyances.

[Note: I haven't tried this at all recently - I just did a quick search to try to refresh my crumbling memory]

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