pinentry

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

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