gnupg
brew install gnupgAlso known as: gnupg@2.5, gpg, gpg2
GNU Privacy Guard (OpenPGP)
License: GPL-3.0-or-later
Development: Pull requests
Formula JSON API: /api/formula/gnupg.json
Formula code: gnupg.rb on GitHub
Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:
| macOS on Apple Silicon |
golden gate | ✅ |
|---|---|---|
| tahoe | ✅ | |
| sequoia | ✅ | |
| Linux | ARM64 | ✅ |
| x86_64 | ✅ |
Current versions:
| stable | ✅ | 2.5.24 |
Other versions:
| gnupg@1.4 | 1.4.23 | GNU Privacy Guard (OpenPGP) |
Revision: 1
Depends on:
| gnutls | 3.8.13 | GNU Transport Layer Security (TLS) Library |
| libassuan | 3.0.2 | Assuan IPC Library |
| libgcrypt | 1.12.4 | Cryptographic library based on the code from GnuPG |
| libgpg-error | 1.61 | Common error values for all GnuPG components |
| libksba | 1.8.1 | X.509 and CMS library |
| libusb | 1.0.30 | Library for USB device access |
| npth | 1.8 | New GNU portable threads library |
| pinentry | 1.3.3 | Passphrase entry dialog utilizing the Assuan protocol |
| readline | 8.3.6 | Library for command-line editing |
| gettext | 1.0 | GNU internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) library |
Depends on when building from source:
| pkgconf | 3.0.10 | Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit |
Uses from macOS: bzip2, openldap, sqlite
Binaries:
addgnupghome,
applygnupgdefaults,
dirmngr,
dirmngr-client,
gpg,
gpg-agent,
gpg-authcode-sign.sh,
gpg-card,
gpg-connect-agent,
gpg-mail-tube,
gpg-wks-client,
gpg-wks-server,
gpgconf,
gpgparsemail,
gpgscm,
gpgsm,
gpgsplit,
gpgtar,
gpgv,
kbxutil,
watchgnupg
GitHub Packages downloads:
| Last 30 days | 691,358 |
|---|---|
| Downloads | 22,250,264 |
| Analytics install events (30 days) | 73,311 |
| Downloads / install events (30 days) | 9.4× |
Source: GitHub Packages, fetched 2026-11-02T00:41:30Z. Analytics dates: 2026-10-03 to 2026-11-02. Totals exclude downloads from Bintray before the migration to GitHub Packages. Downloads and install attempts measure different things; the difference does not count analytics opt-outs. Definitions and limitations.
Analytics:
| 30 days | 90 days | 365 days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Installs | 73,247 | 199,517 | 957,137 |
Installs (--HEAD) | 64 | 158 | 667 |
| Installs on Request | 38,134 | 107,528 | 547,877 |
Installs on Request (--HEAD) | 59 | 150 | 649 |
| Build Errors | 185 |