How To Find GPG Keys In Encrypted File With Out Decrypting it?

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Hello All,
Is there a way to determine how many public keys are embedded or used to encrypt in a GPG file with out decrypting the actual encrypted file. I know i can see the keys & email id's used when we decrypt it, but curious to find a command if any to know with out decrypting the actual file as i am not able to find when i googled it. appreciate your help.

Thank you.

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It's generally not possible to view any kind of contents of an encrypted file without decrypting it, no.

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Why don't you create an encrypted file with PGP and then grep for the encryption key that you used? That should answer the question. My guess is that you won't find the key, because if you could find the key, it would not really be encrypted.