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

It worked for me when i replace the decrypt command with below command

gpg --output decrypted_file --batch --passphrase "passphrase goes here" --decrypt encrypted_file