symmetric encryption is not working

[Peter Lebbing]

On 06/01/18 06:27, Charles E. Blair wrote:
> and creates a plaintext file without asking for
> a passphrase.

Your gpg-agent is probably caching the passphrase. You can evict the
cache with:

gpgconf --reload gpg-agent

After that, it will prompt you for the passphrase again.

HTH,

Peter.

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