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No prompts for password while decrypting
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Commands executed under Fedora last stable in Gnome on Wayland session:

$ gpg --versio| head -n 2
gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.17
libgcrypt 1.8.4

Be the password set for encrypting saved or not in the local password manager, while decrypting there is no prompts for password.

$ touch V; gpg -c --cipher-algo aes-256 V; rm V
$ LANG=C gpg -o V -d V.gpg
gpg: AES256 encrypted data
gpg: encrypted with 1 passphrase

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Version
2.2.17

Event Timeline

Rycky_Tigg created this task.Aug 3 2019, 1:52 PM
Rycky_Tigg closed this task as Invalid.Aug 3 2019, 6:02 PM
Rycky_Tigg claimed this task.

I was able to avoid reported behaviour; then n not a bug.

$ gpg --no-symkey-cache --compress-algo zlib --cipher-algo aes-256 -c V
$ LANG=C gpg -o V -d V.gpg
gpg: AES256 encrypted data
gpg: encrypted with 1 passphrase