Gpg passphrase windows

However there should be a warning in the manual. I don't have access to a real Unix system at the moment. Understand your hesitancy to change and documenting would be good.

I did post a note on stackexchange. Yes, we read up to the first LF. This has been the traditional way of PGP2 and is still used by mail programs like Mutt. As always I have to remark that it is better to remove the passphrase from the key than to supply it by a script to gpg. After all it is easy for an attacker to get the passphrase if it is stored somewhere and thus the passphrase protection does not make sense. GnuPG decryption not asking for passphrase Ask Question.

Asked 6 years, 2 months ago. Active 1 year, 8 months ago. Viewed 50k times. How can I force the system to ask the passphrase every time?

Improve this question. Jens Erat EsseTi EsseTi 1 1 gold badge 5 5 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges. The accepted answer also works for that case. Related: unix. To force it to ask for the passphrase just when you want it to, for testing, do this: To force it to ask for a passphrase, do this: unix.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. GnuPG only uses keys from your key chain, so it must be in there to use it. Improve this answer. Steve Bond 4 4 bronze badges. Jens Erat Jens Erat Note that for gpg2 "--no-use-agent" is an obsolete option - it has no effect. To be more specific, it is obsolete for GnuPG 2.

You've mentioned the --pinentry-mode-lookback. Could you give me some advice howto to use this option? Peter Lebbing. You can send me encrypted mail if you want some privacy. Post by Peter Lebbing So it appears to take a hexstring, not a percent-escaped string. Indeed this is what happens the passphrase is indeed "test", this is a test. Post by Mike Kaufmann See also the attached screenshot. Do you habe any other ideas?

Any further ideas? I am despairing slowly but surely Therefore I think, that's not the reason.