gpg-agent is a daemon to manage secret (private) keys independently from any protocol. It is used as a backend for gpg and gpgsm as well as for a couple of other utilities. _ _ ___ ___ | | (_) __ _ _ __ / _ \ / _ \ | | | | / _` | | '_ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | (_| | | |_) | | |_| | | |_| | |_| |_| \__,_| | .__/ \___/ \___/ |_| __ ____ __ / / __ __ ___ _ __ |___ \ \ \ | | \ \ / / / _ \ | '__| __) | | | | | \ V / | __/ | | / __/ | | | | \_/ \___| |_| |_____| | | \_\ /_/