Problem with default key

Alexander W. Janssen yalla at fsfe.org
Fri Aug 8 11:27:24 CEST 2008


andrea giovannoni wrote:
> Hi,

Hi,

> I have a problem with my default key.
> 
> gpg --default-key 0x12345578 gpg: Go ahead and type your message ...
> 
> Can you help me?

What's your exact question? That's the default behaviour if you omit all
other parameters. It automatically starts reading from stdin.
The manual page says:

> gpg may be run with no commands, in which case it will perform  a 
> reasonable  action  depending on the type of file it is given as 
> input (an encrypted message is decrypted, a signature is verified,  a
>  file  containing keys is listed).

Hope that helps.

> Andrea

Alex.

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