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Passphrase on Decrypt #1494

Open WJDeVries opened 9 years ago

WJDeVries commented 9 years ago

I'm running Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon. I'm playing around with Keybase, encrypting and decrypting messages with my key pair. The first decrypt displayed the message 'You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for user: "keybase.io/princetyke princetyke@keybase.io" 2048-bit RSA key, ID CF8D9F49356CFBC2, created 2015-04-02 (subkey on main key ID FFE1B8A57A310F99)' and popped up a window so I could put in my passphrase. All is good. But every subsequent decrypt just yields the message and doesn't allow me to put in a passphrase anywhere.

frank-borkin commented 9 years ago

It sounds like the passphrase is being cached by gpg-agent - this is expected behaviour. If you want to be prompted for a passphrase everytime then shutdown / disable / remove gpg-agent.

WJDeVries commented 9 years ago

The problem is that it's not actually decrypting anything.