Calling GnuPG in Java via a Runtime Process to encrypt and decrypt files - Decrypt always hangs

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NOTE: Coming back to this later as I\'ve been unable to find a working solution. Draining the input streams manually instead of using BufferedReaders doesn

Answer 1

I forget how you handle it in Java, there are 100 methods for that. But I was stuck with decrypt command itself, it was very helpful, though you didn't need all those quotes and if you wish to decrypt a large file, it goes like this:

gpg --passphrase-fd 0 --output yourfile.txt --decrypt /encryptedfile.txt.gpg/ 0