Using GPG to Encrypt Your Data

Re:Using GPG to Encrypt Your Data by brotherjerky on Thursday January 12, 2017 @04:04PM (#13386091)

Does `-no-use-agent` work? I see this in man:

       --no-use-agent
              This is dummy option. gpg always requires the agent.

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Re:Using GPG to Encrypt Your Data by jph on Friday January 13, 2017 @10:31AM (#13391528)

I'll remove it now. It was useful to have (for me) for GPG version 1 when I connected to machines via SSH and didn't want a GPG agent pop up UI, and didn't have an easy way to change the GPG agent settings.

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Re:Using GPG to Encrypt Your Data by jwilk on Thursday January 12, 2017 @05:03PM (#13386564)

Contemporary versions of GnuPG (>= 2.1 IIRC) always use gpg-agent, and this option does nothing except producing a warning:

  gpg: WARNING: "--no-use-agent" is an obsolete option - it has no effect

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