gpg --list-packets should give you a clue.... ----- Original Message ---- From: Sebastien Chassot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dirk Traulsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: GnuPG mailing list <gnupg-users@gnupg.org> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 7:29:43 AM Subject: Re: How know who is a file encrypted for ?
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 09:59 +0100, Dirk Traulsen wrote: > If you are the third recipient, you have to give 6 times a wrong > password until you can finally input the correct one. This gets real > fun when there are ten recipients... > > It would be nice, if > 1. gpg would take the password and test it automatically with all > recipients keys. > 1a. If there would be a hit, fine. > 1b. If there was no hit, print a list of all recipient keys and give > two more chances for a correct password. > 2. there would be a command --recipient-keys which would just list all > recipient keys of an encrypted file, so I could see in advance whether > my key is one of them. > I thought it wasn't any command for security reason, but I agree it seems a basic functionality is missing. Maybe a command giving complete information on a file would be useful too. I mean a signed file and an encrypted file have both .gpg extension and are hard to distinguish, aren't they ? Or the --verify command could be more verbose and list recipient's keys ? $ gpg --verify encrypted_file.gpg gpg: verify signatures failed: unexpected data $ gpg --verify signed_file.gpg gpg: Signature made ... gpg: Good signature from ... _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
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