My use of gnupg is very simple (or so I thought) I created a user (defaults accepted) with a nice long passphrase I then encrypted a file using --symmetric I decrypt the file %gpg -d ... You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for ... <enter the secret key from user creation> gpg: Invalid passphrase; please try again ... two more attempts, same result gpg: 3DES encrypted session key Enter passphrase: entering the passphrase created above works fine. I understand that secret key is different from session key, but I don't understand why the passphrase is not acceptable in the first case, but is in the last. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines