A question regarding gnupg and passphrases...

Chris Walters cwalters999 at comcast.net
Fri Oct 20 06:02:13 CEST 2006


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Hi All,

I have been lurking in this group for a while now, and have been using
gnupg for a while, as well.

My question is this:  When I symmetrically encrypt something with
"gpg -c" it will allow me to enter only one passphrase.  However, when I
decrypt the same thing, with the same passphrase, it has a line that
says "Encrypted with 1 passphrase".  This implies that it is possible to
use more than one passphrase when encrypting.  Does anyone know if this
is true?  Or if it is a future plan?  If it is possible, could someone
give me an idea of how to do it?

By the way, I looked over all of the documentation on the site, and it
does not seem to mention multiple passphrases, nor does the man page.

Regards,
Chris
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