Hi All,

We use PGP Command Line 9.8 build 28 version. (Windows 2003 R2 Ent. SP2)

There is automated script which signs and encrypts the file. When I try to process several files sequencially the first one is signed and encrypted without any errors but the second and following ones fail.

What the script does:

1. Since for signing is used out private key we first cache the passphrase (for 10 seconds) used for private key by running the following command.

pgp.exe --cache-passphrase <Our_Key_pair_ID> --passphrase <bla-bla-bla> --passphrase-cache --passphrase-cache-timeout 10

2. Then we try to sign and encrypt the file:

pgp.exe --encrypt <file_to_encrypt> --sign --signer <Our_Key_pair_ID> -r <Customer_Pub_Key_ID> --output <encrypted_filename> --overwrite remove

But for second file I get something like this:

Warning: PGPsdk running in local mode.
<Our_Key_pair_ID>:encrypt (3011:invalid passphrase specified)

so pgp exits with %ERRORLEVEL%=162

My question is why it switches in local mode? (in docs I found that in local mode password caching doesn't work...)

Please note PGP_LOCAL_MODE variable is not defined in our environment.

The PGP is licensed and we have no issues when just encrypting/decritping the files. The problem appears when we try to sign the file in addition to encryption.

Constantin,

Many Thanks