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Pinentry: Gluecode Private Key Operations Cache

This document provides a diagram of the architecture and data flow for private key operations in the GNU Privacy Guard (Gpg) encryption software. It shows that Gpg interfaces with a Gpg-agent through Assuan, which handles private key operations and caches from multiple backends like PKCS#15, OpenPGP, and NKS specifications. The Gpg-agent then interfaces with hardware security modules and smart cards through lower-level APIs to perform cryptographic operations using the private keys.

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Pinentry: Gluecode Private Key Operations Cache

This document provides a diagram of the architecture and data flow for private key operations in the GNU Privacy Guard (Gpg) encryption software. It shows that Gpg interfaces with a Gpg-agent through Assuan, which handles private key operations and caches from multiple backends like PKCS#15, OpenPGP, and NKS specifications. The Gpg-agent then interfaces with hardware security modules and smart cards through lower-level APIs to perform cryptographic operations using the private keys.

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Alternative access paths

IPC (pipe or socket)


pinentry
Internal data flow
(GTK+, Qt, Curses)

ssh−agent

Assuan
gpg 1.4 gpg−agent SCDaemon

Private Key
Cache
Gluecode Operations
OpenPGP OpenPGP NKS PKCS#15

Assuan
APDU and ISO−7816 access code Disk Card APDU and ISO−7816 access code

CCID PC/SC CT−API CCID PC/SC CT−API

wrapper

pcsd

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