<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">the fact is that no passphrase is asked, and I don't know how I can force the system to ask it.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 8:57 PM Dirk Gottschalk via Gnupg-users <<a href="mailto:gnupg-users@gnupg.org">gnupg-users@gnupg.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi.<br>
<br>
Am Donnerstag, den 02.08.2018, 14:11 +0200 schrieb Stefano<br>
Tranquillini:<br>
> Hi all,<br>
> last year I encrypted some files, today i tried to decrypt them but<br>
> the<br>
> decryption fails<br>
<br>
> stefano@~/Downloads/words$ gpg -d words.1.gpg<br>
> gpg: AES256 encrypted data<br>
> gpg: encrypted with 1 passphrase<br>
> gpg: decryption failed: Bad session key<br>
<br>
> can it be the difference between 1.4 (i guess in july 2017 that was)<br>
> and<br>
> the current one<br>
<br>
I don't now if there's any difference in symmetric encryption between<br>
1.4.X and 2.2.X.<br>
<br>
> stefano@~/Downloads/words$ gpg --version<br>
> gpg (GnuPG/MacGPG2) 2.2.8<br>
> libgcrypt 1.8.3<br>
<br>
> what can I do?<br>
> (i'm on a mac)<br>
<br>
You could download and build the legacy version of GPG and give it a<br>
try.<br>
<br>
Are you sure you used the correct passphrase to decrypt?<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Dirk<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Dirk Gottschalk<br>
Paulusstrasse 6-8<br>
52064 Aachen, Germany<br>
<br>
GPG: DDCB AF8E 0132 AA54 20ABĀ B864 4081 0B18 1ED8 E838<br>
Keybase.io: <a href="https://keybase.io/dgottschalk" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://keybase.io/dgottschalk</a><br>
GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/Dirk1980ac" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/Dirk1980ac</a><br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Stefano</div>