understanding what gnugp can do

[Jack McKinney]

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Big Brother tells me that Armin Hartinger wrote:
> That's what that resulted in:
>=20
> ...
> gpg: public key decryption failed: bad passphrase
> ...
> secmem usage: 1664/2496 bytes in 4/8 blocks of pool 2496/16384
>=20
> On a sidenote: It tried to allocate 1.2GBytes? ;-)

    Don't know about this one, but I have two thoughts on the passphrase.
1. Did you shell-escape everything properly in the passphrase? and,
2. (my bad) try the -n option to echo so that it won't send a newline:

echo -n All of them | gpg --pgp-passphrase 0 --decrypt orient-express.gpg

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