Error verifying encrypted and signed message

[Hauke Laging]

Am Sa 13.07.2013, 15:28:41 schrieb Thorsten Steinbrenner:

> Is it possible to only verify an encrypted message without decrypting it?

That is impossible. In order to check a signature you must first be able to 
read it (and, of course, the data it refers to).

But you can decrypt it and throw the data away:

gpg --output /dev/null file.sig+enc.asc


Hauke
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