pinentry
brew install pinentryPassphrase entry dialog utilizing the Assuan protocol
https://www.gnupg.org/related_software/pinentry/
License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Development: Pull requests
Formula JSON API: /api/formula/pinentry.json
Formula code: pinentry.rb on GitHub
Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:
| macOS on Apple Silicon |
golden gate | ✅ |
|---|---|---|
| tahoe | ✅ | |
| sequoia | ✅ | |
| sonoma | ✅ | |
| macOS on Intel |
sonoma | ✅ |
| Linux | ARM64 | ✅ |
| x86_64 | ✅ |
Current versions:
| stable | ✅ | 1.3.3 |
Depends on:
| libassuan | 3.0.2 | Assuan IPC Library |
| libgpg-error | 1.61 | Common error values for all GnuPG components |
Depends on when building from source:
| pkgconf | 3.0.10 | Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit |
Uses from macOS: ncurses
Binaries:
pinentry,
pinentry-curses,
pinentry-tty
GitHub Packages downloads:
| Last 30 days | 395,723 |
|---|---|
| Downloads | 15,055,658 |
| Analytics install events (30 days) | 29,082 |
| Downloads / install events (30 days) | 13.6× |
Source: GitHub Packages, fetched 2026-11-11T00:50:31Z. Analytics dates: 2026-10-12 to 2026-11-11. 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 | 29,082 | 73,170 | 428,873 |
Installs (--HEAD) | 0 | 1 | 14 |
| Installs on Request | 477 | 1,179 | 7,822 |
Installs on Request (--HEAD) | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Build Errors | 0 |