Finding all files encrypted with a certain key

Felix E. Klee felix.klee at inka.de
Wed Oct 25 04:54:20 CEST 2023


On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 5:21 PM Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:
> encrypted-to-me-p.sh
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #/bin/sh
> gpg -d  --status-fd 1 -o /dev/null 2>/dev/null "$1" | awk '
> $1=="[GNUPG:]" && $2=="ENC_TO" && $3=="BEF6EFD38FE8DCA0" {print $1; exit 0}'
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Thank you! I modified that a bit, to make it more readable to me and fix
a little bug: The second `$1` doesn’t expand to the file name. Also, I
had to pass `--pinentry-mode cancel`. Otherwise it would ask me for the
PIN of my smartcard. See below for my version.

What I don’t like is the `2>/dev/null` because that may mask actual
error messages. I specified `--quiet`. That works to some extend, but I
still get:

    gpg: decryption failed: No secret key

I wonder how to get rid of that.

My version:

    #/bin/sh

    filename=$1
    enc_sub_key=04FDF78D1679DD94

    gpg --decrypt \
        --pinentry-mode cancel \
        --status-fd 1 \
        --quiet \
        --output /dev/null "$1" |
        awk -v filename="$filename" \
            -v enc_sub_key="$enc_sub_key" \
            '
            $1=="[GNUPG:]" &&
            $2=="ENC_TO" &&
            $3==enc_sub_key {
                    print filename
                    exit 0
            }'



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