Problems decrypting with multifile

[Werner Koch]

Hi,

I just tried it:

  $ for i in 1 2 3; do fortune | gpg -er alfa --no-encrypt-to >x$i.gpg; done
  $ ls -l
  total 12
  -rw-r--r-- 1 wk wk 390 Sep 17 14:45 x1.gpg
  -rw-r--r-- 1 wk wk 534 Sep 17 14:45 x2.gpg
  -rw-r--r-- 1 wk wk 386 Sep 17 14:45 x3.gpg
  $ gpg --decrypt-files --no-use-agent  x1.gpg x2.gpg x3.gpg
  
  You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
  user: "Alfa Test (demo key) <alfa at example.net>"
  1024-bit ELG-E key, ID 46A871F8, created 1999-03-08 (main key ID 68697734)
  
  gpg: encrypted with 1024-bit ELG-E key, ID 46A871F8, created 1999-03-08
        "Alfa Test (demo key) <alfa at example.net>"
  gpg: encrypted with 1024-bit ELG-E key, ID 46A871F8, created 1999-03-08
        "Alfa Test (demo key) <alfa at example.net>"
  gpg: encrypted with 1024-bit ELG-E key, ID 46A871F8, created 1999-03-08
        "Alfa Test (demo key) <alfa at example.net>"
  $ ls -l
  total 24
  -rw-r--r-- 1 wk wk  56 Sep 17 14:46 x1
  -rw-r--r-- 1 wk wk 390 Sep 17 14:45 x1.gpg
  -rw-r--r-- 1 wk wk 269 Sep 17 14:46 x2
  -rw-r--r-- 1 wk wk 534 Sep 17 14:45 x2.gpg
  -rw-r--r-- 1 wk wk  52 Sep 17 14:46 x3
  -rw-r--r-- 1 wk wk 386 Sep 17 14:45 x3.gpg
  $ cat x?
  Q:      How much does it cost to ride the Unibus?
  A:      2 bits.
  Good evening, gentlemen.  I am a HAL 9000 computer.  I became operational
  at the HAL plant in Urbana, Illinois, on January 11th, nineteen hundred
  ninety-five.  My supervisor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a
  song.  If you would like, I could sing it for you.
  I had a lease on an OEDIPUS COMPLEX back in '81 ...
  
As you can see, I have no problems.  The --no-encrypt-to is used to
supprerss encryption to my onw key, the --no-use-agent is there so that
the gpg-agent is not used.

What version of gpg are you running and on what OS? 
Is there something special in your ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf? 
(Why do you run under root?)



Salam-Shalom,

   Werner


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