On 16-01-26 00:20:40, Xu Wang wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I have set up gpg signing, encrypting, and I also have to decrypt when
> someone send an encrypted message to me. However, I find it curious
> that in order to decrypt a message I need to put my passphrase in. But
> for signing, I do not need to. Is this normal? It is the same
> passphrase. I'm not sure which settings I set in order to achive this.

I don't have an answer to your question but I'm really curious about
this. What does your setup look like and how did you create your 
keypair? Did you use any special options in the creation process?

Typically one would want to be prompted for a passphrase both for
decryption and signing.

Mutt can be set to remember the gpg passphrase for a certain time. Is it
possible that you might have decrypted some email and typed the
passphrase and then while mutt remembered the passphrase signed and sent
another email?

Interesting situation nevertheless.

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