How know who is a file encrypted for ?

[David Shaw]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 06:55:28PM +0100, Dirk Traulsen wrote:
> > >What I meant, was something like this mockup:
> > ============== 
> > >C:\>gpg --recipient-keys ENCRYPTED_FILE.gpg
> > >gpg: file ENCRYPTED_FILE.gpg was encrypted to the following keys:  
> > 
> > 
> > i agree, and would welcome this as well,
> 
> Thanks. 
> So at least three people think it would be a good addition.

Why?

I'm serious - what is the use case here?  How often do people need to
list all recipients of a file?

By the way:
  gpg --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /dev/null the-file.gpg

David