(BTW -- not to be pedantic, but if by "a few" words you mean "three", then you 
don't have a good passphrase -- six words is kinda minimum with diceware to get 
a decent amount of entropy)

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‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Wednesday, September 16, 2020 5:03 PM, Alan Bram via Gnupg-users 
<gnupg-users@gnupg.org> wrote:

> I have been using gnupg for a few years now, with no change in the way I 
> invoke it. Recently (I guess my package manager updated to a new version: 
> 2.2.23) it started injecting a warning about "insecure passphrase" and 
> suggesting that I ought to include a digit or special character.
> 

> I don't want to do that. I have a strong passphrase that was generated via 
> Diceware. It's simply a few words made of plain letters; but it's long 
> enough, and totally random. Stronger than a short, lame password that someone 
> simply appends a "1" to.
> 

> Is there a way to suppress the annoying warning?

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