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The OpenPGP encrypted data format (RFC 4880), and its implementations PGP and GnuPG.

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Why does OpenPGP encryption produce different ciphertexts from the same plain text?

With the same plain text to be encrypted and the same public key, OpenPGP tends to produce a different ciphertext every time I run the encryption operation. Why is this?