Terminal asks for passphrase even when passphrase is cached by gpg-agent

[Peter Lebbing]

> I have gpg-agent cache passphrase. When I run gpg -c text.txt it asks for 
> passphrase twice like it normally would but Kgpg or KMail don't.

-c is symmetric encryption, encryption with a passphrase. It is
prompting you what the passphrase should be.

If it were to ask you for your passphrase for *decryption*, it would ask
only once (unless you make a typo).

Encryption to a public key would be:

$ gpg -r KEYID -e test.txt

and it will never ask for a passphrase, since you don't need a
passphrase for _encryption_, but rather for _decryption_.

However, also signing the file will need your passphrase, regardless of
the recipient.

By the way, it is possible to specify a "default recipient" in the
configuration file if you do not use a "-r" when encrypting a file with
"-e".

HTH,

Peter.

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