Message Padding for GnuPG

[Stefan Claas]

On 2020-01-22 09:08, Werner Koch via Gnupg-users wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 23:02, Stefan Claas said:
> 
>> because 'gpg --list-packets' shows the original byte size of the unencrypted
>> message or file, including the original filename.
> 
> --list-packets can't show the original filename because that info is
> encrypted.  Note that --list-packets decrypts if it has access to the
> secret key.

Thank you for pointing that out, but I don't understand then when I do
not
enter my passphrase for symmetric decryption of how GnuPG does this, or
are you referring to asymmetric encryption?

Regards
Stefan

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