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title: YubiKey Neo GnuPG on Linux
date: 2017-02-17
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Just a quick note to remind myself, when I inevitably forget.

The built-in GnuPG smartcard support doesn't really work particularly well, in my experience, with the YubiKey Neo. To fix this (and use pcscd) instead, put the following in `~/.gnupg/scdaemon.conf`:

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```txt
pcsc-driver /usr/lib/libpcsclite.so
card-timeout 5
disable-ccid
```