pinentry-curses

curses-based PIN or pass-phrase entry dialog for GnuPG

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/pinentry-curses.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install pinentry-curses
Ubuntu
apt-get install pinentry-curses
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S pinentry-curses
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install pinentry-curses
CentOS
yum install pinentry-curses
Fedora
dnf install pinentry-curses
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install pinentry-curses
Raspbian
apt-get install pinentry-curses

pinentry-curses

curses-based PIN or pass-phrase entry dialog for GnuPG

This package contains a program that allows for secure entry of PINs or pass phrases. That means it tries to take care that the entered information is not swapped to disk or temporarily stored anywhere. This functionality is particularly useful for entering pass phrases when using encryption software such as GnuPG or e-mail clients using the same. It uses an open protocol and is therefore not tied to particular software. The program contained in this package implements a PIN entry dialog using the curses tool kit, meaning that it is useful for users working in text mode without the X Window System. There are sibling packages that implement PIN entry dialogs that use an X tool kit. If you install any of the graphical packages then this package is not necessary because the sibling packages automatically fall back to text mode if X is not active.

pinentry

Collection of simple PIN or passphrase entry dialogs which utilize the Assuan protocol