decrypting to stdout does not work properly

Fourhundred Thecat 400thecat at ik.me
Sun Oct 13 07:31:55 CEST 2024


On 07/10/2024 08.40, jman wrote:
> Fourhundred Thecat via Gnupg-users <gnupg-users at gnupg.org> writes:
> 
>> Also, is there a command for unlocking the agent without actually
>> decrypting anything ?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> funny that I asked exactly the same question a few years ago. I wanted
> to check if my keyring was unlocked before doing any actual operation.
> Apparently the solution is to send an SCD command and then try to to
> what you really want to do (i.e. decrypting a key).

thank you, but what is actually the command to unlock the agent without
decrypting or signing a dummy file?

same as I would do for ssh: ssh-add



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