pinentry

 
 Introduction
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 This manual documents how to use the PINENTRY and its protocol.
 
    The PINENTRY is a small GUI application used to enter PINs or
 passphrases.  It is usually invoked by GPG-AGENT (SeeInvoking the
 gpg-agent (gnupg)Invoking GPG-AGENT, for details).
 
    PINENTRY comes in several flavors to fit the look and feel of the
 used GUI toolkit: A GTK+ based one named 'pinentry-gtk'; a QT based one
 named 'pinentry-qt'; and, two non-graphical ones 'pinentry-curses',
 which uses curses, and 'pinentry-tty', which doesn't require anything
 more than a simple terminal.  Not all of them are necessarily available
 on your installation.  If curses is supported on your system, the
 GUI-based flavors fall back to curses when the 'DISPLAY' variable is not
 set.
 

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