gpg: WARNING: message was not integrity protected

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

When tries to decrypt a file with the gpg application an alert messages is displayed and the file could be decrypted anyway:

gpg: WARNING: message was not integrity protected
gpg: decryption forced to fail!

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
    • gnupg2

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