Re: [Duplicity-talk] Why is duplicity asking for decryption passphrase on --encrypt-sign-key?

[Ian Kelling]

Ian Kelling via Duplicity-talk <address@hidden> writes:

> When I use --encrypt-sign-key, it prompts:
> "GnuPG passphrase for decryption:"
>
> Encrypting with a public key does not use a pass, and just --encrypt-key
> does not ask this, so whats going on?
>
> I'm assuming the passphrase is discarded but I want to make sure that's
> the case.
>
> I'm using 0.7.12-1 from debian.

I added a print statement whenever duplicity calls gpg and confirmed
that it is not used or needed. It makes sense for duplicity to prompt
for decryption password in order to do an incremental backup, so I think
it's just a minor bug that it is prompting when not needed.