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command line complexity

command line complexity

Posted Jan 22, 2026 20:12 UTC (Thu) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
In reply to: command line complexity by dd9jn
Parent article: Responses to gpg.fail

Thanks, this is useful!

(gnupg (v1) support was added to Debian in summer 2013).

The full name of the -f option is --recipient-file which is not make this option easy to find, since there is no recipients involved.

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command line complexity

Posted Jan 24, 2026 19:13 UTC (Sat) by smcv (subscriber, #53363) [Link]

The option name does make sense if you think of gpg as a system for encrypting and authenticating messages (emails, or messages being submitted via http, or similar). In Debian's popcon, the recipient of the message (which therefore needs to be able to decrypt it) is the popcon server rather than a person, but it's still true that it's the recipient if you think of it that way.


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