cannot decrypt file symmetric encrypted

Stefano Tranquillini stefano.tranquillini at gmail.com
Fri Aug 3 15:47:31 CEST 2018


the fact is that no passphrase is asked, and I don't know how I can force
the system to ask it.

On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 8:57 PM Dirk Gottschalk via Gnupg-users <
gnupg-users at gnupg.org> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> Am Donnerstag, den 02.08.2018, 14:11 +0200 schrieb Stefano
> Tranquillini:
> > Hi all,
> > last year I encrypted some files, today i tried to decrypt them but
> > the
> > decryption fails
>
> > stefano@~/Downloads/words$ gpg -d words.1.gpg
> > gpg: AES256 encrypted data
> > gpg: encrypted with 1 passphrase
> > gpg: decryption failed: Bad session key
>
> > can it be the difference between 1.4 (i guess in july 2017 that was)
> > and
> > the current one
>
> I don't now if there's any difference in symmetric encryption between
> 1.4.X and 2.2.X.
>
> > stefano@~/Downloads/words$ gpg --version
> > gpg (GnuPG/MacGPG2) 2.2.8
> > libgcrypt 1.8.3
>
> > what can I do?
> > (i'm on a mac)
>
> You could download and build the legacy version of GPG and give it a
> try.
>
> Are you sure you used the correct passphrase to decrypt?
>
> Regards,
> Dirk
>
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Stefano
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