default secret key for decryption

David Shaw dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Thu Jun 19 14:59:01 2003


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On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 10:32:22AM +0300, Maxim Britov wrote:
> > > File encrypted for four people, man operating now in the system is
> > > third (he appears third in the list of persons for whom file was
> > > encrypted). How can I specify that I'm going to decrypt file using
> > > third key?
> 
> > If you do not respond to the first two prompts, GnuPG will use the
> > third key to decrypt.  Just enter a blank passphrase.
> 
> Can I get all keyids for encrypted message?

http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/documentation/faqs.html#q4.12

> Why I cannot use --default-key for decrypt?

No particular reason I can think of.  It's never come up before.

David
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