Hello, I am trying to pipe output of tar command to gpg, and encrypt symmetrically:
tar --zstd -cf - zz/ | gpg -c -o /tmp/zz.tar.zstd.gpg this fails with following errors: gpg: problem with the agent: Inappropriate ioctl for device gpg: error creating passphrase: Operation cancelled gpg: symmetric encryption of '[stdin]' failed: Operation cancelled The same command works when I change symmetric to public key encryption: tar --zstd -cf - zz/ | gpg -e -o /tmp/zz.tar.zstd.gpg Why does gpg-agent interject itself into symmetric encryption at all? What role does it want to play? Does it want to remember the passphrase? Anyways, how can I encrypt with symmetric when input comes from pipe? thank you, _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org https://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
