Am I attempting the impossible?

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 02:00:11PM -0400,
 Allan Topp <ad707 at ncf.ca> wrote 
 a message of 22 lines which said:

> and thereby only enter 1 passphrase for all of them.

If you just want to avoid typing the passphrase N times, i suggest to
use gpg-agent, which is the greatest invention since syrup on
pancakes.

http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Invoking-GPG_002dAGENT.html