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Feature request for passphrase typing practice mode
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It would be very nice to have a mode one could use that would simply loop and ask for the passphrase of a secret key or (maybe) a conventionally encrypted file and check over and over, as an aid in memorizing the passphrase. I can't see this being that hard to do, and even though there are ways to kludge this using a shell script, I personally think it would be nice to have it built into GnuPG itself.

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I've implemented this one as --passphrase-repeat. Users may set this to however
many repeats they feel will help them remember the passphrase. If they make an
error, GPG will start over. It defaults to 1 of course, which is the old behavior.

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