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UX: Confusing error message when decrypting with incorrect passphrase #41

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pstibrany opened this issue Dec 28, 2019 · 0 comments
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I’ve encrypted simple string using a passphrase. Then I tried to decrypt it, and got message saying saying “Error: no identity matched a recipient”. It took me a few retries to understand that entered passphrase is incorrect. If possible, can this message be improved?

~/age$ cat out | ./age -d
Enter passphrase: <wrong>
Error: no identity matched a recipient
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~/age$ 
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