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 /  |  __/ | |     / __/   | |
 | |    \_/    \___| |_|    |_____|  | |
  \_\                               /_/