> On 2020-06-28 16:07, Werner Koch wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 09:33, Fourhundred Thecat said:
How can I decrypt it without using gpg agent ?
You can't the agent is a cornerstone of gpg and is thus required.
I thought the agent is for manipulating the private key.
But why do I need the agent, when no secret key is involved? I simply
want to decrypt a password-encrypted file. What possible useful role
would agent play?
Seems to me that this is a terrible design, that gpg is basically
unusable without agent. Why should I need some monstrosity running as
daemon, when I just want to decrypt file?
I remember a time, when gpg was a simple, cleanly design utility that
worked.
Imagine the maintainers of ls decided, that ls will no longer work,
unless ls-daemon is running.
What happened to this project?
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