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File decrypts without password
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I encrypted a file.

gpg -c demoFile.txt

But without any flags I am able to decrypt a file without password.

gpg demoFile.txt.gpg

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Version
2.2.19

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indahud created this task.Jan 10 2020, 10:12 PM
• werner closed this task as Resolved.Jan 11 2020, 10:19 AM
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• werner edited projects, added Not A Bug; removed Bug Report.
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It is a feature not a bug. For symmetric encryption the gpg-agent remembers the passphrase used for the encryption and thus for some time or until /gpgconf --reload gpg-agent/ it tries that passphrase for decryption.