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

Question

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

Have you tried to run that command from command-line, not from Java code? There can be an issue with 'for your eyes only' option, when GnuPG will wait for console output.