On Wed,  2 Aug 2017 15:52, roman.fied...@ait.ac.at said:

> How to decrypt large files, e.g. gpg-encrypted backups, without copying them 
> to the machine with the GPG private key?

With GnuPG 2.1 this is easy:  You use ssh's socket forwarding feature to
forward gpg-agent's restricted remote socket, for example

  /run/user/1000/gnupg/S.gpg-agent.extra

to the host and there you run gpg which will then connect back to the
agent on your desktop.  For details see

https://wiki.gnupg.org/AgentForwarding


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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