How to decrypt a message while preserving the signature?

[Peter Lebbing]

Werner recently mentioned an undocumented command for this.[1]

On 27/08/2019 11:30, Werner Koch via Gnupg-users wrote: 
> You can extra the signature from the encrypted+signed data:
> 
>   gpg --unwrap -d -o SIG <ENC+SIG
> 
> and then run
> 
>   gpgv -o SIGNEDFILE SIG && echo verified!
> 
> --unwrap is not documented and has the minor problem that it also keeps the
> compression layer.  However, gpgv groks that compression layer and works
> as with a standard signature.  The signature is on SIGNEDFILE which gpgv
> outputs for you.

HTH,

Peter.

[1] https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2019-August/062619.html

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