On 2018-06-14, Óscar Fuentes wrote:

> While trying to create a demo file I noticed that decryption works fine
> as long as the content was relatively new, while it fails for content
> that was encrypted years ago.
>
> I tried setting epg-gpg-program to "gpg" (it is "gpg2" by default) for
> encrypting some tests but then decryption worked fine on those tests.

Probably you encrypted without integrity protection, which was
always a bad idea but in view of EFAIL attacks has recently gained
lots of attention as Bad Thing.  Nowadays GnuPG returns a failure,
you can override that if you know what you are doing.

See there: https://dev.gnupg.org/T3714

Best wishes
Jens

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