Re: key selection in batch decryptions

2011-10-11 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:18, jw72...@verizon.net said: keys in turn. Is there a way to tell gpg to use just one of the keys if any? I have tried specifying this as one of the options -u userID, but it No there is no way to do this. The best suggestion for all automated systems is not to use a

re: key selection in batch decryptions

2011-10-11 Thread vedaal
John A. Wallace jw72253 at verizon.net wrote on Mon Oct 10 23:18:21 CEST 2011 : Is there a way to tell gpg to use just one of the keys if any? I have tried specifying this as one of the options -u userID, but it seems to ignore my specification and it always tries to use a different key from

key selection in batch decryptions

2011-10-10 Thread John A. Wallace
While I am using gpg 2.0.17 on a Windows OS, I often have instances where I need to decrypt a few random messages from a large batch of messages. Normally, I can pipe the passphrase, symmetric or public key, to the gpg command, and it will attempt to match the passphrase with the keys on my key