Why doesn't gpg ask me for my password when decrypting (symmetric encryption)?

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 06:26, andrewinfosec at gmail.com said:
> When encrypting with --symmetric, I would expect to get asked for the
> password when decrypting but I am never prompted... why?

Run

 gpgconf --reload gpg-agent

before decryption to clear the passphrase cache.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner


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