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Enigmail and the YubiKey

TL/DR

If you can’t sign/decrypt with a YubiKey and Thunderbird/Enigmail you might want to add --pinentry-mode=ask to the “additional parameters for GnuPG” in the Enigmail configuration

The Story

After setting up all the cool Encryption stuff using a YubiKey I was so happy that everything worked.

And then I set up using the YubiKey for SSH as well as described in the documents I linked in the last blogpost. It took a reboot for everything to work out as I wanted it, but I was happy. Until I wanted to send a signed Email using Thunderbird/Enigmail.

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YubiKey for 2FA and GPG

A few years ago Marco Pivetta and I chatted about YubiKeys. He described his setup which was absolutely amazing to me at the time. The most intriguing point was, that he could get the 2-Factor Authentication tokens from whatever phone as long as he had the YubiKey with him.

Recently my phone broke and I had to setup the whole 2-factor authentication thingy again and again. That was the time I remembered that chat again. So I decided to test it out.

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