> On 15/10/2022 14.36, Robert J. Hansen via Gnupg-users wrote:
Why does gpg-agent interject itself into symmetric encryption at all?
Where in that command line do you specify a passphrase?
You don't.
gpg-agent is getting fired up in order to ask you what passphrase to use
for the symmetric encryption.
why can't gpg accept passphrase in the terminal?
Why does it need to start a daemon?
gpg-agent is supposed to be used for managing private and public keys.
At least that's what the man page says.
Besides, when I use "gpg -c file", it works fine. I =get asked for
passphrase (via pinentry, I think)
so I am not sure what you mean by "Where in that command line do you
specify a passphrase"
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