pass / gnupg is caching?

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On Thu, 8 Jan 2026, Werner Koch via Gnupg-users wrote:

> Hi Matthias,
>
>> i.e. the 2nd time does not modify the read access time of the file. Why?
>
> I don't think that pass as a shell script caches anything.  Neither does
> gpg.  I think you need to have "strictatime" in the mount options to get
> accurate atimes.  The default seems to be "relatime" (Access time is
> only updated if the previous access time was earlier than the current
> modify or change time).


the man page says caching is the default for symmetric encryption