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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 (Note: Invoking the
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.
Using pinentry- How to use the beast.
- Front ends
- Description and comparison of the front ends
Developer information
- Protocol
- The Assuan protocol description.
- Implementation Details
- For those extending or writing a new pinentry.
Miscellaneous
- Copying
- GNU General Public License says
how you can copy and share PIN-Entry
as well as this manual.
Indices
- Option Index
- Index to command line options.
- Index
- Index of concepts and symbol names.