Automatic Encryption

[Olaf Gellert]

Hi all,

I am trying to use GPG for automatic encryption of files,
called by a script. My first attempt would be something
like

gpg --batch -a --yes -notty -r 0x799241C1 --encrypt file

What I do get is:

gpg: 799241C1: There is no indication that this key really belongs to the owner
gpg: todo: encryption failed: unusable public key

Ok, seems that GPG has a look into the trustdb.
But on this system I do not want to maintain a trustdb,
so I would like to tell GPG "yes, sure, do as I said"
on the command line.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
  Olaf

P.S.: Sometimes I wonder what the options "--batch" and
      "-notty" and "--yes" are good for if they are not
      always evaluated by GPG. If I call GPG with
      gpg --yes -notty -r 0x799241C1 --encrypt todo
      I am asked if gpg should really use this key. Well,
      why does GPG assume I did not mean "YES" and "NOTTY"?


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