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Tails OpenPGP Applet hangs on large text

Originally created by @sajolida on #6398 (Redmine)

When trying to decrypt large text using gpgApplet, the applet becomes unresponsive:

- Encrypt a large piece of text: hexdump /bin/bash | gpg --armor --encrypt
- Copy to the clipboard.
- Decrypt using gpgApplet.

The applet starts a GnuPG command (gpg --batch --no-tty --armor --decrypt) but does not terminate even after 45 minutes. Meanwhile, clicking on the gpgApplet does nothing.

Decrypting such text on the command line is almost instantaneous.

Feature Branch: feature/6398-openpgp-applet-1.1

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