pinentry-mac
Apple Silicon version latest seen at v1.3.1.1 · Reported by 4 Macs in the community.
All sighted native versions (2):
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pinentry-mac is a passphrase-entry dialog for the GnuPG (GPG) cryptographic toolkit on macOS. It provides a native macOS GUI window for users to enter their GPG key passphrase when signing or decrypting files and messages, replacing command-line prompts with a secure dialog box. Developers, system administrators, and security-conscious users who rely on GPG for code signing, email encryption, or file security use pinentry-mac as part of their GnuPG workflow. It is distributed as a standalone utility or installed via Homebrew alongside the GnuPG package. A native Apple Silicon build has been confirmed running on Macs in the Rosetta Check community.
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1 suggestionA native Apple Silicon build of pinentry-mac exists and has been confirmed running on Macs in the Rosetta Check community. If you installed pinentry-mac via Homebrew, the simplest path is to run 'brew upgrade pinentry-mac' in Terminal, which will automatically fetch and install the latest native build for your architecture. Homebrew detects your Mac's processor and serves the appropriate binary during the upgrade, so you do not need to do anything special — just run the upgrade command and let Homebrew complete the installation. After the upgrade finishes, verify the pinentry-mac path in your gpg-agent.conf file (typically /usr/local/bin/pinentry-mac or /opt/homebrew/bin/pinentry-mac if you are on Apple Silicon) and update it if needed, then restart the GPG agent with 'gpgconf --kill gpg-agent' so it picks up the new path on next use.
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