GPG encryption and decryption in windows

[Steve Strobel]

>My question is how to get rid of the passphrase prompt during 
>runtime in windows platform?

This may be completely unrelated, but I also ran into a problem where 
I was prompted for a passphrase when the real issue was something 
else.  Running on an Ubuntu host trying to connect to and Ubuntu 
server running on Amazon web services:

ssh -i keyfile.pem ubuntu at mydomain.net
Enter passphrase for key 'keyfile.pem': <I just hit enter>
Permission denied (publickey).

sudo ssh -i keyfile.pem ubuntu at vtrunk.net
<this worked without any prompt because used sudo>

The keyfile was created without a passphrase, but trying to use it 
when I didn't have permission for the host's filesystem caused a 
prompt for a passphrase that AFAIK doesn't exist.  I don't see how or 
why using sudo had anything to do with a passphrase for the 
key.  When the key was created without a passphrase, it seems wrong 
for gpg to prompt for one regardless of what else might be wrong.

I guess what I am suggesting is that the logic that causes gpg to 
prompt for a passphrase either has a problem or my understanding of 
it does.  Whether the problem you are experiencing on a Windows 
system is related at all is a question I can't answer.

>Thanks
>Sethukumar

Steve


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