GnuPG asks for confirmation...

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Sat Jun 3 07:49:45 CEST 2006


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engage wrote:
> On Thursday 01 June 2006 08:59 pm, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>>engage wrote:
>>> Why is someone sending an encrypted message to this list?
>>
>>It's not encrypted.  It's just signed and armored.
>>
>>Doesn't your mail client automatically display this for you?
> 
> No. I keep getting prompted for my passphrase for this message.
> Kmail.

Just hit enter.  There isn't any encryption, but the message is
armored and as others have pointed out, email software often just
assumes any pgp chunk that begins with "BEGIN PGP MESSAGE" is
encrypted and asks for a passphrase to pass on to gpg.  I've used mutt
with gpg-agent for years now and have grown accustomed to not having
that prompt unless a passphrase was truly required.  :)

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Todd        OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xD654075A | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp
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