I use gpg on Windows OS. On the command line when I use this command: gpg -d filename.asc
a pinentry window pops up requesting my passphrase. If it happens that the message was encrypted with the option --throw-keyids, then the pinentry window, not knowing which key was used, starts with one of my keys arbitrarily and requests the passphrase for it. I have two questions about this procedure. First, if I know which key was used and I want to select it, I can click the "Cancel" button at the time I see the arbitrary key dialogue window, and then the program will select another key, again apparently arbitrarily, and so on in succession, until it gets to the one I want, at which time I can enter the correct passphrase and get the decrypted result. However, much of the time I find that using this procedure does not cause the pinentry dialogue to move from one key to another but instead causes the dialogue window to close after either the first or second clicking on the cancel button instead of continuing on down through the complete list of keys I have available. It just fails to decrypt. This failure occurs mostly when I first try to use the procedure, but then it starts working properly after a few tries even though I do exactly the same steps each time. Why does it fail initially? Is this a known issue? I have noticed a number of instances of failures during batch decryption too, even though the pinentry dialogue does not arise of course. These failures result in the "--status-file" indicating that the decryption failed although in fact I can find the decrypted message present. Secondly, what is the correct way to handle this sort of procedure under these circumstances so that indeed all the keys would be tried each time? My initial thought is to include the option "-- try-all-secrets" in order to prevent the failure and premature closing of the decryption attempts during batch processes. Thanks. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users