Hi,

In order to understand GnuPG, I tried to create private keys on two ubuntu 
systems. Here are my steps and I would ask my question at the end as I need to 
show what I did.

1. System A: Created private and public key by using 'gpg --gen-key' and then
        'gpg --export --armor -out userA.asc -r 'USER A'

2. System B: Created private and public key by using 'gpg --gen-key' and then 
imported public key of userA
        'gpg --import userA.asc'

3. System B: encrypted a file for userA using userA's public key '
        gpg -o file_from_userB -r userA --encrypt file_to_encrypt

4. System A: Tried to decrypt file_from_userB
        gpg -o decrypted_file --decrypt file_from_userB
at this point, it asks to provide passphrase of userA. Is it possible to avoid 
where I need to provide passphrase at all? My understanding was that the file 
was encrypted with userA's credential to begin with, and userA should be 
decrtypt it without providing any passphrase? How can do this procedure where I 
don't have to provide passphrase in decryption?

Thanks a lot.

Naeem

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