Comments for GnuPG: list all recipients of a message

[phinjensen]

Comments for https://www.endpointdev.com/blog/2013/05/gnupg-list-all-recipients-of-message/
By Jon Jensen

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[phinjensen]

original author: Greg Sabino Mullane
date: 2013-05-24T10:39:51-04:00

That is annoying; I've not found an easier solution either. I find myself using --no-default-keyring and --dry-run way too often to work around quirks in gnupg.

[neilmayhew]

For me, using gpg2, the --no-default-keyring technique no longer works. However, -v/--verbose does what I need:

$ gpg --list-only -v -d FILE.gpg
gpg: public key is 310D4243BAC51B24
gpg: public key is C09F593D04C1E593

I can then do gpg --list-secret-keys ... to find the full details of the keys.

Everyone agrees that the GPG UI is quirky, but maybe it's getting better.

[neilmayhew]

This might be better as a Stack Overflow question.

[NBrouard]

For me gpg --list-only foo.gpg works and lists all recipients the file was crypted for. I am using gpg 2.2.5 version. But there is still a warning
$ LC_ALL=C gpg --list-only foo.gpg
gpg: WARNING: no command supplied. Trying to guess what you mean ...
gpg: encrypted with 1792-bit ELG key, ID XXXXXXXXXX, created 2005-03-29
name@foo
gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit RSA key, ID YYYYYYYYY , created 2018-02-05
name2@foo2

[neilmayhew]

@NBrouard That's why I used -d which is the command for decryption. However, --list-only stops it from actually decrypting the file.