Exit status and failed decryption of session key

[Frank Tobin]

Florian Weimer, at 15:36 +0200 on 21 Apr 2000, wrote:

> Bug or feature?  It's quite annoying if you want to find out whether
> decryption succeed by looking at the exit status.

There are so many issues that can happen as the result of an OpenPGP
operation.  One could verify a signature, but not have the public key or a
web-of-trust line, or one could have the issue you talked aobut,
etc.  What you should really look into is parsing the output of the option
"status-fd", which has information described in GnuPG's DETAILS file.

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