[[!comment format=mdwn username="http://joeyh.name/" ip="4.154.6.49" subject="comment 1" date="2012-11-29T20:13:53Z" content=""" Hmm, is this an encrypted rsync remote? I have not been able to reproduce the problem so fat. If you start the assistant with --debug, and look in .git/annex/daemon.log, you should find where it runs gpg, and the lines showing what it's doing just before/after that should provide a hint what it's doing. """]]