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Re: [Duplicity-talk] why is GPG passphrase requested twice?
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Kenneth Loafman |
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Re: [Duplicity-talk] why is GPG passphrase requested twice? |
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Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:09:37 -0500 |
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Dan Muresan wrote:
>> The passphrase isn't new; it's the passphrase for my existing GPG key.
>> So GPG already knows it; if I enter it incorrectly, GPG will return
>> an error message. What more do you need to detect errors?
>
> Normally, duplicity uses symmetric encryption with the specified passphrase.
>
> There are various options for working with GPG keys (which I don't
> recall). Possibly your GPG key was never even touched.
If you use the --encrypt-key option, duplicity assumes that you are
encrypting to that public key, which has no password. Without it,
duplicity assumes symmetric encryption and requires a password.
If you have a passphrase on your public key, duplicity will fail.
...Ken
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- Re: [Duplicity-talk] why is GPG passphrase requested twice?, Dan Muresan, 2008/07/19
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- Re: [Duplicity-talk] why is GPG passphrase requested twice?, Benjamin Geer, 2008/07/19
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] why is GPG passphrase requested twice?, Dan Muresan, 2008/07/19
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