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# doc/DETAILS -*- org -*-
#+TITLE: GnuPG Details
# Globally disable superscripts and subscripts:
#+OPTIONS: ^:{}
#
# Note: This file uses org-mode; it should be easy to read as plain
# text but be aware of some markup peculiarities: Verbatim code is
# enclosed in #+begin-example, #+end-example blocks or marked by a
# colon as the first non-white-space character, words bracketed with
# equal signs indicate a monospace font, and the usual /italics/,
# *bold*, and _underline_ conventions are recognized.
This is the DETAILS file for GnuPG which specifies some internals and
parts of the external API for GPG and GPGSM.
* Format of the colon listings
The format is a based on colon separated record, each recods starts
with a tag string and extends to the end of the line. Here is an
example:
#+begin_example
$ gpg --with-colons --list-keys \
--with-fingerprint --with-fingerprint wk@gnupg.org
pub:f:1024:17:6C7EE1B8621CC013:899817715:1055898235::m:::scESC:
fpr:::::::::ECAF7590EB3443B5C7CF3ACB6C7EE1B8621CC013:
uid:f::::::::Werner Koch <wk@g10code.com>:
uid:f::::::::Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>:
sub:f:1536:16:06AD222CADF6A6E1:919537416:1036177416:::::e:
fpr:::::::::CF8BCC4B18DE08FCD8A1615906AD222CADF6A6E1:
sub:r:1536:20:5CE086B5B5A18FF4:899817788:1025961788:::::esc:
fpr:::::::::AB059359A3B81F410FCFF97F5CE086B5B5A18FF4:
#+end_example
Note that new version of GnuPG or the use of certain options may add
new fields to the output. Parsers should not assume a limit on the
number of fields per line. Some fields are not yet used or only used
with certain record types; parsers should ignore fields they are not
aware of. New versions of GnuPG or the use of certain options may add
new types of records as well. Parsers should ignore any record whose
type they do not recognize for forward-compatibility.
The double =--with-fingerprint= prints the fingerprint for the subkeys
too. Old versions of gpg used a slightly different format and required
the use of the option =--fixed-list-mode= to conform to the format
described here.
** Description of the fields
*** Field 1 - Type of record
- pub :: Public key
- crt :: X.509 certificate
- crs :: X.509 certificate and private key available
- sub :: Subkey (secondary key)
- sec :: Secret key
- ssb :: Secret subkey (secondary key)
- uid :: User id
- uat :: User attribute (same as user id except for field 10).
- sig :: Signature
- rev :: Revocation signature
- rvs :: Recocation signature (standalone) [since 2.2.9]
- fpr :: Fingerprint (fingerprint is in field 10)
- fp2 :: SHA-256 fingerprint (fingerprint is in field 10)
- pkd :: Public key data [*]
- grp :: Keygrip
- rvk :: Revocation key
- tfs :: TOFU statistics [*]
- tru :: Trust database information [*]
- spk :: Signature subpacket [*]
- cfg :: Configuration data [*]
Records marked with an asterisk are described at [[*Special%20field%20formats][*Special fields]].
*** Field 2 - Validity
This is a letter describing the computed validity of a key.
Currently this is a single letter, but be prepared that additional
information may follow in some future versions. Note that GnuPG <
2.1 does not set this field for secret key listings.
- o :: Unknown (this key is new to the system)
- i :: The key is invalid (e.g. due to a missing self-signature)
- d :: The key has been disabled
(deprecated - use the 'D' in field 12 instead)
- r :: The key has been revoked
- e :: The key has expired
- - :: Unknown validity (i.e. no value assigned)
- q :: Undefined validity. '-' and 'q' may safely be treated as
the same value for most purposes
- n :: The key is not valid
- m :: The key is marginal valid.
- f :: The key is fully valid
- u :: The key is ultimately valid. This often means that the
secret key is available, but any key may be marked as
ultimately valid.
- w :: The key has a well known private part.
- s :: The key has special validity. This means that it might be
self-signed and expected to be used in the STEED system.
If the validity information is given for a UID or UAT record, it
describes the validity calculated based on this user ID. If given
for a key record it describes the validity taken from the best
rated user ID.
For X.509 certificates a 'u' is used for a trusted root
certificate (i.e. for the trust anchor) and an 'f' for all other
valid certificates.
In "sig" records, this field may have one of these values as first
character:
- ! :: Signature is good.
- - :: Signature is bad.
- ? :: No public key to verify signature or public key is not usable.
- % :: Other error verifying a signature
More values may be added later. The field may also be empty if
gpg has been invoked in a non-checking mode (--list-sigs) or in a
fast checking mode. Since 2.2.7 '?' will also be printed by the
command --list-sigs if the key is not in the local keyring.
*** Field 3 - Key length
The length of key in bits.
*** Field 4 - Public key algorithm
The values here are those from the OpenPGP specs or if they are
greather than 255 the algorithm ids as used by Libgcrypt.
*** Field 5 - KeyID
This is the 64 bit keyid as specified by OpenPGP and the last 64
bit of the SHA-1 fingerprint of an X.509 certifciate.
*** Field 6 - Creation date
The creation date of the key is given in UTC. For UID and UAT
records, this is used for the self-signature date. Note that the
date is usually printed in seconds since epoch, however, we are
migrating to an ISO 8601 format (e.g. "19660205T091500"). This is
currently only relevant for X.509. A simple way to detect the new
format is to scan for the 'T'. Note that old versions of gpg
without using the =--fixed-list-mode= option used a "yyyy-mm-tt"
format.
*** Field 7 - Expiration date
Key or UID/UAT expiration date or empty if it does not expire.
*** Field 8 - Certificate S/N, UID hash, trust signature info
Used for serial number in crt records. For UID and UAT records,
this is a hash of the user ID contents used to represent that
exact user ID. For trust signatures, this is the trust depth
separated by the trust value by a space.
*** Field 9 - Ownertrust
This is only used on primary keys. This is a single letter, but
be prepared that additional information may follow in future
versions. For trust signatures with a regular expression, this is
the regular expression value, quoted as in field 10.
*** Field 10 - User-ID
The value is quoted like a C string to avoid control characters
(the colon is quoted =\x3a=). For a "pub" record this field is
not used on --fixed-list-mode. A UAT record puts the attribute
subpacket count here, a space, and then the total attribute
subpacket size. In gpgsm the issuer name comes here. The FPR and FP2
records store the fingerprints here. The fingerprint of a
revocation key is stored here.
*** Field 11 - Signature class
Signature class as per RFC-4880. This is a 2 digit hexnumber
followed by either the letter 'x' for an exportable signature or
the letter 'l' for a local-only signature. The class byte of an
revocation key is also given here, 'x' and 'l' is used the same
way. This field if not used for X.509.
"rev" and "rvs" may be followed by a comma and a 2 digit hexnumber
with the revocation reason.
*** Field 12 - Key capabilities
The defined capabilities are:
- e :: Encrypt
- s :: Sign
- c :: Certify
- a :: Authentication
- ? :: Unknown capability
A key may have any combination of them in any order. In addition
to these letters, the primary key has uppercase versions of the
letters to denote the _usable_ capabilities of the entire key, and
a potential letter 'D' to indicate a disabled key.
*** Field 13 - Issuer certificate fingerprint or other info
Used in FPR records for S/MIME keys to store the fingerprint of
the issuer certificate. This is useful to build the certificate
path based on certificates stored in the local key database it is
only filled if the issuer certificate is available. The root has
been reached if this is the same string as the fingerprint. The
advantage of using this value is that it is guaranteed to have
been built by the same lookup algorithm as gpgsm uses.
For "uid" records this field lists the preferences in the same way
gpg's --edit-key menu does.
For "sig", "rev" and "rvs" records, this is the fingerprint of the
key that issued the signature. Note that this may only be filled
if the signature verified correctly. Note also that for various
technical reasons, this fingerprint is only available if
--no-sig-cache is used. Since 2.2.7 this field will also be set
if the key is missing but the signature carries an issuer
fingerprint as meta data.
*** Field 14 - Flag field
Flag field used in the --edit menu output
*** Field 15 - S/N of a token
Used in sec/ssb to print the serial number of a token (internal
protect mode 1002) or a '#' if that key is a simple stub (internal
protect mode 1001). If the option --with-secret is used and a
secret key is available for the public key, a '+' indicates this.
*** Field 16 - Hash algorithm
For sig records, this is the used hash algorithm. For example:
2 = SHA-1, 8 = SHA-256.
*** Field 17 - Curve name
For pub, sub, sec, and ssb records this field is used for the ECC
curve name.
*** Field 18 - Compliance flags
Space separated list of asserted compliance modes for this key.
Valid values are:
- 8 :: The key is compliant with RFC4880bis
- 23 :: The key is compliant with compliance mode "de-vs".
*** Field 19 - Last update
The timestamp of the last update of a key or user ID. The update
time of a key is defined a lookup of the key via its unique
identifier (fingerprint); the field is empty if not known. The
update time of a user ID is defined by a lookup of the key using a
trusted mapping from mail address to key.
*** Field 20 - Origin
The origin of the key or the user ID. This is an integer
optionally followed by a space and an URL. This goes along with
the previous field. The URL is quoted in C style.
*** Field 21 - Comment
This is currently only used in "rev" and "rvs" records to carry
the the comment field of the recocation reason. The value is
quoted in C style.
** Special fields
*** PKD - Public key data
If field 1 has the tag "pkd", a listing looks like this:
#+begin_example
pkd:0:1024:B665B1435F4C2 .... FF26ABB:
! ! !-- the value
! !------ for information number of bits in the value
!--------- index (eg. DSA goes from 0 to 3: p,q,g,y)
#+end_example
*** TFS - TOFU statistics
This field may follows a UID record to convey information about
the TOFU database. The information is similar to a TOFU_STATS
status line.
- Field 2 :: tfs record version (must be 1)
- Field 3 :: validity - A number with validity code.
- Field 4 :: signcount - The number of signatures seen.
- Field 5 :: encrcount - The number of encryptions done.
- Field 6 :: policy - A string with the policy
- Field 7 :: signture-first-seen - a timestamp or 0 if not known.
- Field 8 :: signature-most-recent-seen - a timestamp or 0 if not known.
- Field 9 :: encryption-first-done - a timestamp or 0 if not known.
- Field 10 :: encryption-most-recent-done - a timestamp or 0 if not known.
*** TRU - Trust database information
Example for a "tru" trust base record:
#+begin_example
tru:o:0:1166697654:1:3:1:5
#+end_example
- Field 2 :: Reason for staleness of trust. If this field is
empty, then the trustdb is not stale. This field may
have multiple flags in it:
- o :: Trustdb is old
- t :: Trustdb was built with a different trust model
than the one we are using now.
- Field 3 :: Trust model
- 0 :: Classic trust model, as used in PGP 2.x.
- 1 :: PGP trust model, as used in PGP 6 and later.
This is the same as the classic trust model,
except for the addition of trust signatures.
GnuPG before version 1.4 used the classic trust model
by default. GnuPG 1.4 and later uses the PGP trust
model by default.
- Field 4 :: Date trustdb was created in seconds since Epoch.
- Field 5 :: Date trustdb will expire in seconds since Epoch.
- Field 6 :: Number of marginally trusted users to introduce a new
key signer (gpg's option --marginals-needed).
- Field 7 :: Number of completely trusted users to introduce a new
key signer. (gpg's option --completes-needed)
- Field 8 :: Maximum depth of a certification chain. (gpg's option
--max-cert-depth)
*** SPK - Signature subpacket records
- Field 2 :: Subpacket number as per RFC-4880 and later.
- Field 3 :: Flags in hex. Currently the only two bits assigned
are 1, to indicate that the subpacket came from the
hashed part of the signature, and 2, to indicate the
subpacket was marked critical.
- Field 4 :: Length of the subpacket. Note that this is the
length of the subpacket, and not the length of field
5 below. Due to the need for %-encoding, the length
of field 5 may be up to 3x this value.
- Field 5 :: The subpacket data. Printable ASCII is shown as
ASCII, but other values are rendered as %XX where XX
is the hex value for the byte.
*** CFG - Configuration data
--list-config outputs information about the GnuPG configuration
for the benefit of frontends or other programs that call GnuPG.
There are several list-config items, all colon delimited like the
rest of the --with-colons output. The first field is always "cfg"
to indicate configuration information. The second field is one of
(with examples):
- version :: The third field contains the version of GnuPG.
: cfg:version:1.3.5
- pubkey :: The third field contains the public key algorithms
this version of GnuPG supports, separated by
semicolons. The algorithm numbers are as specified in
RFC-4880. Note that in contrast to the --status-fd
interface these are _not_ the Libgcrypt identifiers.
Using =pubkeyname= prints names instead of numbers.
: cfg:pubkey:1;2;3;16;17
- cipher :: The third field contains the symmetric ciphers this
version of GnuPG supports, separated by semicolons.
The cipher numbers are as specified in RFC-4880.
Using =ciphername= prints names instead of numbers.
: cfg:cipher:2;3;4;7;8;9;10
- digest :: The third field contains the digest (hash) algorithms
this version of GnuPG supports, separated by
semicolons. The digest numbers are as specified in
RFC-4880. Using =digestname= prints names instead of
numbers.
: cfg:digest:1;2;3;8;9;10
- compress :: The third field contains the compression algorithms
this version of GnuPG supports, separated by
semicolons. The algorithm numbers are as specified
in RFC-4880.
: cfg:compress:0;1;2;3
- group :: The third field contains the name of the group, and the
fourth field contains the values that the group expands
to, separated by semicolons.
For example, a group of:
: group mynames = paige 0x12345678 joe patti
would result in:
: cfg:group:mynames:patti;joe;0x12345678;paige
- curve :: The third field contains the curve names this version
of GnuPG supports, separated by semicolons. Using
=curveoid= prints OIDs instead of numbers.
: cfg:curve:ed25519;nistp256;nistp384;nistp521
* Format of the --status-fd output
Every line is prefixed with "[GNUPG:] ", followed by a keyword with
the type of the status line and some arguments depending on the type
(maybe none); an application should always be willing to ignore
unknown keywords that may be emitted by future versions of GnuPG.
Also, new versions of GnuPG may add arguments to existing keywords.
Any additional arguments should be ignored for forward-compatibility.
** General status codes
*** NEWSIG [<signers_uid>]
Is issued right before a signature verification starts. This is
useful to define a context for parsing ERROR status messages.
If SIGNERS_UID is given and is not "-" this is the percent-escaped
value of the OpenPGP Signer's User ID signature sub-packet.
*** GOODSIG <long_keyid_or_fpr> <username>
The signature with the keyid is good. For each signature only one
of the codes GOODSIG, BADSIG, EXPSIG, EXPKEYSIG, REVKEYSIG or
ERRSIG will be emitted. In the past they were used as a marker
for a new signature; new code should use the NEWSIG status
instead. The username is the primary one encoded in UTF-8 and %XX
escaped. The fingerprint may be used instead of the long keyid if
it is available. This is the case with CMS and might eventually
also be available for OpenPGP.
*** EXPSIG <long_keyid_or_fpr> <username>
The signature with the keyid is good, but the signature is
expired. The username is the primary one encoded in UTF-8 and %XX
escaped. The fingerprint may be used instead of the long keyid if
it is available. This is the case with CMS and might eventually
also be available for OpenPGP.
*** EXPKEYSIG <long_keyid_or_fpr> <username>
The signature with the keyid is good, but the signature was made
by an expired key. The username is the primary one encoded in
UTF-8 and %XX escaped. The fingerprint may be used instead of the
long keyid if it is available. This is the case with CMS and
might eventually also be available for OpenPGP.
*** REVKEYSIG <long_keyid_or_fpr> <username>
The signature with the keyid is good, but the signature was made
by a revoked key. The username is the primary one encoded in UTF-8
and %XX escaped. The fingerprint may be used instead of the long
keyid if it is available. This is the case with CMS and might
eventually also beñ available for OpenPGP.
*** BADSIG <long_keyid_or_fpr> <username>
The signature with the keyid has not been verified okay. The
username is the primary one encoded in UTF-8 and %XX escaped. The
fingerprint may be used instead of the long keyid if it is
available. This is the case with CMS and might eventually also be
available for OpenPGP.
*** ERRSIG <keyid> <pkalgo> <hashalgo> <sig_class> <time> <rc> <fpr>
It was not possible to check the signature. This may be caused by
a missing public key or an unsupported algorithm. A RC of 4
indicates unknown algorithm, a 9 indicates a missing public
key. The other fields give more information about this signature.
sig_class is a 2 byte hex-value. The fingerprint may be used
instead of the long_keyid_or_fpr if it is available. This is the
case with gpgsm and might eventually also be available for
OpenPGP. The ERRSIG line has FPR filed which is only available
since 2.2.7; that FPR may either be missing or - if the signature
has no fingerprint as meta data.
Note, that TIME may either be the number of seconds since Epoch or
an ISO 8601 string. The latter can be detected by the presence of
the letter 'T'.
*** VALIDSIG <args>
The args are:
- <fingerprint_in_hex>
- <sig_creation_date>
- <sig-timestamp>
- <expire-timestamp>
- <sig-version>
- <reserved>
- <pubkey-algo>
- <hash-algo>
- <sig-class>
- [ <primary-key-fpr> ]
This status indicates that the signature is cryptographically
valid. This is similar to GOODSIG, EXPSIG, EXPKEYSIG, or REVKEYSIG
(depending on the date and the state of the signature and signing
key) but has the fingerprint as the argument. Multiple status
lines (VALIDSIG and the other appropriate *SIG status) are emitted
for a valid signature. All arguments here are on one long line.
sig-timestamp is the signature creation time in seconds after the
epoch. expire-timestamp is the signature expiration time in
seconds after the epoch (zero means "does not
expire"). sig-version, pubkey-algo, hash-algo, and sig-class (a
2-byte hex value) are all straight from the signature packet.
PRIMARY-KEY-FPR is the fingerprint of the primary key or identical
to the first argument. This is useful to get back to the primary
key without running gpg again for this purpose.
The primary-key-fpr parameter is used for OpenPGP and not
available for CMS signatures. The sig-version as well as the sig
class is not defined for CMS and currently set to 0 and 00.
Note, that *-TIMESTAMP may either be a number of seconds since
Epoch or an ISO 8601 string which can be detected by the presence
of the letter 'T'.
*** SIG_ID <radix64_string> <sig_creation_date> <sig-timestamp>
This is emitted only for signatures of class 0 or 1 which have
been verified okay. The string is a signature id and may be used
in applications to detect replay attacks of signed messages. Note
that only DLP algorithms give unique ids - others may yield
duplicated ones when they have been created in the same second.
Note, that SIG-TIMESTAMP may either be a number of seconds since
Epoch or an ISO 8601 string which can be detected by the presence
of the letter 'T'.
*** ENC_TO <long_keyid> <keytype> <keylength>
The message is encrypted to this LONG_KEYID. KEYTYPE is the
numerical value of the public key algorithm or 0 if it is not
known, KEYLENGTH is the length of the key or 0 if it is not known
(which is currently always the case). Gpg prints this line
always; Gpgsm only if it knows the certificate.
*** BEGIN_DECRYPTION
Mark the start of the actual decryption process. This is also
emitted when in --list-only mode.
*** END_DECRYPTION
Mark the end of the actual decryption process. This are also
emitted when in --list-only mode.
*** DECRYPTION_KEY <fpr> <fpr2> <otrust>
This line is emitted when a public key decryption succeeded in
providing a session key. <fpr> is the hexified fingerprint of the
actual key used for descryption. <fpr2> is the fingerprint of the
primary key. <otrust> is the letter with the ownertrust; this is
in general a 'u' which stands for ultimately trusted.
*** DECRYPTION_INFO <mdc_method> <sym_algo> [<aead_algo>]
Print information about the symmetric encryption algorithm and the
MDC method. This will be emitted even if the decryption fails.
For an AEAD algorithm AEAD_ALGO is not 0.
*** DECRYPTION_FAILED
The symmetric decryption failed - one reason could be a wrong
passphrase for a symmetrical encrypted message.
*** DECRYPTION_OKAY
The decryption process succeeded. This means, that either the
correct secret key has been used or the correct passphrase for a
symmetric encrypted message was given. The program itself may
return an errorcode because it may not be possible to verify a
signature for some reasons.
*** SESSION_KEY <algo>:<hexdigits>
The session key used to decrypt the message. This message will
only be emitted if the option --show-session-key is used. The
format is suitable to be passed as value for the option
--override-session-key. It is not an indication that the
decryption will or has succeeded.
*** BEGIN_ENCRYPTION <mdc_method> <sym_algo>
Mark the start of the actual encryption process.
*** END_ENCRYPTION
Mark the end of the actual encryption process.
*** FILE_START <what> <filename>
Start processing a file <filename>. <what> indicates the performed
operation:
- 1 :: verify
- 2 :: encrypt
- 3 :: decrypt
*** FILE_DONE
Marks the end of a file processing which has been started
by FILE_START.
*** BEGIN_SIGNING
Mark the start of the actual signing process. This may be used as
an indication that all requested secret keys are ready for use.
*** ALREADY_SIGNED <long-keyid>
Warning: This is experimental and might be removed at any time.
*** SIG_CREATED <type> <pk_algo> <hash_algo> <class> <timestamp> <keyfpr>
A signature has been created using these parameters.
Values for type <type> are:
- D :: detached
- C :: cleartext
- S :: standard
(only the first character should be checked)
<class> are 2 hex digits with the OpenPGP signature class.
Note, that TIMESTAMP may either be a number of seconds since Epoch
or an ISO 8601 string which can be detected by the presence of the
letter 'T'.
*** NOTATION_
There are actually three related status codes to convey notation
data:
- NOTATION_NAME <name>
- NOTATION_FLAGS <critical> <human_readable>
- NOTATION_DATA <string>
<name> and <string> are %XX escaped. The data may be split among
several NOTATION_DATA lines. NOTATION_FLAGS is emitted after
NOTATION_NAME and gives the critical and human readable flags;
the flag values are either 0 or 1.
*** POLICY_URL <string>
Note that URL in <string> is %XX escaped.
*** PLAINTEXT <format> <timestamp> <filename>
This indicates the format of the plaintext that is about to be
written. The format is a 1 byte hex code that shows the format of
the plaintext: 62 ('b') is binary data, 74 ('t') is text data with
no character set specified, and 75 ('u') is text data encoded in
the UTF-8 character set. The timestamp is in seconds since the
epoch. If a filename is available it gets printed as the third
argument, percent-escaped as usual.
*** PLAINTEXT_LENGTH <length>
This indicates the length of the plaintext that is about to be
written. Note that if the plaintext packet has partial length
encoding it is not possible to know the length ahead of time. In
that case, this status tag does not appear. The length is only
exact for binary formats; other formats ('t', 'u') may do post
processing like line ending conversion so that the actual number
of bytes written may be differ.
*** ATTRIBUTE <arguments>
The list or arguments are:
- <fpr>
- <octets>
- <type>
- <index>
- <count>
- <timestamp>
- <expiredate>
- <flags>
This is one long line issued for each attribute subpacket when an
attribute packet is seen during key listing. <fpr> is the
fingerprint of the key. <octets> is the length of the attribute
subpacket. <type> is the attribute type (e.g. 1 for an image).
<index> and <count> indicate that this is the N-th indexed
subpacket of count total subpackets in this attribute packet.
<timestamp> and <expiredate> are from the self-signature on the
attribute packet. If the attribute packet does not have a valid
self-signature, then the timestamp is 0. <flags> are a bitwise OR
of:
- 0x01 :: this attribute packet is a primary uid
- 0x02 :: this attribute packet is revoked
- 0x04 :: this attribute packet is expired
*** SIG_SUBPACKET <type> <flags> <len> <data>
This indicates that a signature subpacket was seen. The format is
the same as the "spk" record above.
*** ENCRYPTION_COMPLIANCE_MODE <flags>
Indicates that the current encryption operation was in compliance
with the given set of modes for all recipients. "flags" is a
space separated list of numerical flags, see "Field 18 -
Compliance flags" above.
*** DECRYPTION_COMPLIANCE_MODE <flags>
Indicates that the current decryption operation is in compliance
with the given set of modes. "flags" is a space separated list of
numerical flags, see "Field 18 - Compliance flags" above.
*** VERIFICATION_COMPLIANCE_MODE <flags>
Indicates that the current signature verification operation is in
compliance with the given set of modes. "flags" is a space
separated list of numerical flags, see "Field 18 - Compliance
flags" above.
** Key related
*** INV_RECP, INV_SGNR
The two similar status codes:
- INV_RECP <reason> <requested_recipient>
- INV_SGNR <reason> <requested_sender>
are issued for each unusable recipient/sender. The reasons codes
currently in use are:
- 0 :: No specific reason given
- 1 :: Not Found
- 2 :: Ambigious specification
- 3 :: Wrong key usage
- 4 :: Key revoked
- 5 :: Key expired
- 6 :: No CRL known
- 7 :: CRL too old
- 8 :: Policy mismatch
- 9 :: Not a secret key
- 10 :: Key not trusted
- 11 :: Missing certificate
- 12 :: Missing issuer certificate
- 13 :: Key disabled
- 14 :: Syntax error in specification
If no specific reason was given a previously emitted status code
KEY_CONSIDERED may be used to analyzed the problem.
Note that for historical reasons the INV_RECP status is also used
for gpgsm's SIGNER command where it relates to signer's of course.
Newer GnuPG versions are using INV_SGNR; applications should
ignore the INV_RECP during the sender's command processing once
they have seen an INV_SGNR. Different codes are used so that they
can be distinguish while doing an encrypt+sign operation.
*** NO_RECP <reserved>
Issued if no recipients are usable.
*** NO_SGNR <reserved>
Issued if no senders are usable.
*** KEY_CONSIDERED <fpr> <flags>
Issued to explain the lookup of a key. FPR is the hexified
fingerprint of the primary key. The bit values for FLAGS are:
- 1 :: The key has not been selected.
- 2 :: All subkeys of the key are expired or have been revoked.
*** KEYEXPIRED <expire-timestamp>
The key has expired. expire-timestamp is the expiration time in
seconds since Epoch. This status line is not very useful because
it will also be emitted for expired subkeys even if this subkey is
not used. To check whether a key used to sign a message has
expired, the EXPKEYSIG status line is to be used.
Note, that the TIMESTAMP may either be a number of seconds since
Epoch or an ISO 8601 string which can be detected by the presence
of the letter 'T'.
*** KEYREVOKED
The used key has been revoked by its owner. No arguments yet.
*** NO_PUBKEY <long keyid>
The public key is not available. Note the arg should in general
not be used because it is better to take it from the ERRSIG
status line which is printed right before this one.
*** NO_SECKEY <long keyid>
The secret key is not available
*** KEY_CREATED <type> <fingerprint> [<handle>]
A key has been created. Values for <type> are:
- B :: primary and subkey
- P :: primary
- S :: subkey
The fingerprint is one of the primary key for type B and P and the
one of the subkey for S. Handle is an arbitrary non-whitespace
string used to match key parameters from batch key creation run.
*** KEY_NOT_CREATED [<handle>]
The key from batch run has not been created due to errors.
*** TRUST_
These are several similar status codes:
- TRUST_UNDEFINED <error_token>
- TRUST_NEVER <error_token>
- TRUST_MARGINAL [0 [<validation_model>]]
- TRUST_FULLY [0 [<validation_model>]]
- TRUST_ULTIMATE [0 [<validation_model>]]
For good signatures one of these status lines are emitted to
indicate the validity of the key used to create the signature.
The error token values are currently only emitted by gpgsm.
VALIDATION_MODEL describes the algorithm used to check the
validity of the key. The defaults are the standard Web of Trust
model for gpg and the standard X.509 model for gpgsm. The
defined values are
- pgp :: The standard PGP WoT.
- shell :: The standard X.509 model.
- chain :: The chain model.
- steed :: The STEED model.
- tofu :: The TOFU model
Note that the term =TRUST_= in the status names is used for
historic reasons; we now speak of validity.
*** TOFU_USER <fingerprint_in_hex> <mbox>
This status identifies the key and the userid for all following
Tofu information. The fingerprint is the fingerprint of the
primary key and the mbox is in general the addr-spec part of the
userid encoded in UTF-8 and percent escaped. The fingerprint is
identical for all TOFU_USER lines up to a NEWSIG line.
*** TOFU_STATS <MANY_ARGS>
Statistics for the current user id.
The <MANY_ARGS> are the usual space delimited arguments. Here we
have too many of them to fit on one printed line and thus they are
given on 3 printed lines:
: <summary> <sign-count> <encryption-count>
: [<policy> [<tm1> <tm2> <tm3> <tm4>
: [<validity> [<sign-days> <encrypt-days>]]]]
Values for SUMMARY are:
- 0 :: attention, an interaction with the user is required (conflict)
- 1 :: key with no verification/encryption history
- 2 :: key with little history
- 3 :: key with enough history for basic trust
- 4 :: key with a lot of history
Values for POLICY are:
- none :: No Policy set
- auto :: Policy is "auto"
- good :: Policy is "good"
- bad :: Policy is "bad"
- ask :: Policy is "ask"
- unknown :: Policy is "unknown" (TOFU information does not
contribute to the key's validity)
TM1 is the time the first message was verified. TM2 is the time
the most recent message was verified. TM3 is the time the first
message was encrypted. TM4 is the most recent encryption. All may
either be seconds since Epoch or an ISO time string
(yyyymmddThhmmss).
VALIDITY is the same as SUMMARY with the exception that VALIDITY
doesn't reflect whether the key needs attention. That is it never
takes on value 0. Instead, if there is a conflict, VALIDITY still
reflects the key's validity (values: 1-4).
SUMMARY values use the euclidean distance (m = sqrt(a² + b²)) rather
then the sum of the magnitudes (m = a + b) to ensure a balance between
verified signatures and encrypted messages.
Values are calculated based on the number of days where a key was used
for verifying a signature or to encrypt to it.
The ranges for the values are:
- 1 :: signature_days + encryption_days == 0
- 2 :: 1 <= sqrt(signature_days² + encryption_days²) < 8
- 3 :: 8 <= sqrt(signature_days² + encryption_days²) < 42
- 4 :: sqrt(signature_days² + encryption_days²) >= 42
SIGN-COUNT and ENCRYPTION-COUNT are the number of messages that we
have seen that have been signed by this key / encryption to this
key.
SIGN-DAYS and ENCRYPTION-DAYS are similar, but the number of days
(in UTC) on which we have seen messages signed by this key /
encrypted to this key.
*** TOFU_STATS_SHORT <long_string>
Information about the TOFU binding for the signature.
Example: "15 signatures verified. 10 messages encrypted"
*** TOFU_STATS_LONG <long_string>
Information about the TOFU binding for the signature in verbose
format. The LONG_STRING is percent escaped.
Example: 'Verified 9 messages signed by "Werner Koch
(dist sig)" in the past 3 minutes, 40 seconds. The most
recent message was verified 4 seconds ago.'
*** PKA_TRUST_
This is one of:
- PKA_TRUST_GOOD <addr-spec>
- PKA_TRUST_BAD <addr-spec>
Depending on the outcome of the PKA check one of the above status
codes is emitted in addition to a =TRUST_*= status.
** Remote control
*** GET_BOOL, GET_LINE, GET_HIDDEN, GOT_IT
These status line are used with --command-fd for interactive
control of the process.
*** USERID_HINT <long main keyid> <string>
Give a hint about the user ID for a certain keyID.
*** NEED_PASSPHRASE <long keyid> <long main keyid> <keytype> <keylength>
Issued whenever a passphrase is needed. KEYTYPE is the numerical
value of the public key algorithm or 0 if this is not applicable,
KEYLENGTH is the length of the key or 0 if it is not known (this
is currently always the case).
*** NEED_PASSPHRASE_SYM <cipher_algo> <s2k_mode> <s2k_hash>
Issued whenever a passphrase for symmetric encryption is needed.
*** NEED_PASSPHRASE_PIN <card_type> <chvno> [<serialno>]
Issued whenever a PIN is requested to unlock a card.
*** MISSING_PASSPHRASE
No passphrase was supplied. An application which encounters this
message may want to stop parsing immediately because the next
message will probably be a BAD_PASSPHRASE. However, if the
application is a wrapper around the key edit menu functionality it
might not make sense to stop parsing but simply ignoring the
following BAD_PASSPHRASE.
*** BAD_PASSPHRASE <long keyid>
The supplied passphrase was wrong or not given. In the latter
case you may have seen a MISSING_PASSPHRASE.
*** GOOD_PASSPHRASE
The supplied passphrase was good and the secret key material
is therefore usable.
** Import/Export
*** IMPORT_CHECK <long keyid> <fingerprint> <user ID>
This status is emitted in interactive mode right before
the "import.okay" prompt.
*** IMPORTED <long keyid> <username>
The keyid and name of the signature just imported
*** IMPORT_OK <reason> [<fingerprint>]
The key with the primary key's FINGERPRINT has been imported.
REASON flags are:
- 0 :: Not actually changed
- 1 :: Entirely new key.
- 2 :: New user IDs
- 4 :: New signatures
- 8 :: New subkeys
- 16 :: Contains private key.
The flags may be ORed.
*** IMPORT_PROBLEM <reason> [<fingerprint>]
Issued for each import failure. Reason codes are:
- 0 :: No specific reason given.
- 1 :: Invalid Certificate.
- 2 :: Issuer Certificate missing.
- 3 :: Certificate Chain too long.
- 4 :: Error storing certificate.
*** IMPORT_RES <args>
Final statistics on import process (this is one long line). The
args are a list of unsigned numbers separated by white space:
- <count>
- <no_user_id>
- <imported>
- always 0 (formerly used for the number of RSA keys)
- <unchanged>
- <n_uids>
- <n_subk>
- <n_sigs>
- <n_revoc>
- <sec_read>
- <sec_imported>
- <sec_dups>
- <skipped_new_keys>
- <not_imported>
- <skipped_v3_keys>
*** EXPORTED <fingerprint>
The key with <fingerprint> has been exported. The fingerprint is
the fingerprint of the primary key even if the primary key has
been replaced by a stub key during secret key export.
*** EXPORT_RES <args>
Final statistics on export process (this is one long line). The
args are a list of unsigned numbers separated by white space:
- <count>
- <secret_count>
- <exported>
** Smartcard related
*** CARDCTRL <what> [<serialno>]
This is used to control smartcard operations. Defined values for
WHAT are:
- 1 :: Request insertion of a card. Serialnumber may be given
to request a specific card. Used by gpg 1.4 w/o
scdaemon
- 2 :: Request removal of a card. Used by gpg 1.4 w/o scdaemon.
- 3 :: Card with serialnumber detected
- 4 :: No card available
- 5 :: No card reader available
- 6 :: No card support available
- 7 :: Card is in termination state
*** SC_OP_FAILURE [<code>]
An operation on a smartcard definitely failed. Currently there is
no indication of the actual error code, but application should be
prepared to later accept more arguments. Defined values for
<code> are:
- 0 :: unspecified error (identically to a missing CODE)
- 1 :: canceled
- 2 :: bad PIN
*** SC_OP_SUCCESS
A smart card operaion succeeded. This status is only printed for
certain operation and is mostly useful to check whether a PIN
change really worked.
** Miscellaneous status codes
*** NODATA <what>
No data has been found. Codes for WHAT are:
- 1 :: No armored data.
- 2 :: Expected a packet but did not found one.
- 3 :: Invalid packet found, this may indicate a non OpenPGP
message.
- 4 :: Signature expected but not found
You may see more than one of these status lines.
*** UNEXPECTED <what>
Unexpected data has been encountered. Codes for WHAT are:
- 0 :: Not further specified
- 1 :: Corrupted message structure
*** TRUNCATED <maxno>
The output was truncated to MAXNO items. This status code is
issued for certain external requests.
*** ERROR <error location> <error code> [<more>]
This is a generic error status message, it might be followed by
error location specific data. <error code> and <error_location>
should not contain spaces. The error code is a either a string
commencing with a letter or such a string prefixed with a
numerical error code and an underscore; e.g.: "151011327_EOF".
*** WARNING <location> <error code> [<text>]
This is a generic warning status message, it might be followed by
error location specific data. <location> and <error code> may not
contain spaces. The <location> may be used to indicate a class of
warnings. The error code is a either a string commencing with a
letter or such a string prefixed with a numerical error code and
an underscore; e.g.: "151011327_EOF".
*** NOTE <location> <error code> [<text>]
This is a generic info status message the same syntax as for
WARNING messages is used.
*** SUCCESS [<location>]
Positive confirmation that an operation succeeded. It is used
similar to ISO-C's EXIT_SUCCESS. <location> is optional but if
given should not contain spaces. Used only with a few commands.
*** FAILURE <location> <error_code>
This is the counterpart to SUCCESS and used to indicate a program
failure. It is used similar to ISO-C's EXIT_FAILURE but allows
conveying more information, in particular a gpg-error error code.
That numerical error code may optionally have a suffix made of an
underscore and a string with an error symbol like "151011327_EOF".
A dash may be used instead of <location>.
*** BADARMOR
The ASCII armor is corrupted. No arguments yet.
*** DELETE_PROBLEM <reason_code>
Deleting a key failed. Reason codes are:
- 1 :: No such key
- 2 :: Must delete secret key first
- 3 :: Ambigious specification
- 4 :: Key is stored on a smartcard.
*** PROGRESS <what> <char> <cur> <total> [<units>]
Used by the primegen and public key functions to indicate
progress. <char> is the character displayed with no --status-fd
enabled, with the linefeed replaced by an 'X'. <cur> is the
current amount done and <total> is amount to be done; a <total> of
0 indicates that the total amount is not known. Both are
non-negative integers. The condition
: TOTAL && CUR == TOTAL
may be used to detect the end of an operation.
Well known values for <what> are:
- pk_dsa :: DSA key generation
- pk_elg :: Elgamal key generation
- primegen :: Prime generation
- need_entropy :: Waiting for new entropy in the RNG
- tick :: Generic tick without any special meaning - useful
for letting clients know that the server is still
working.
- starting_agent :: A gpg-agent was started because it is not
running as a daemon.
- learncard :: Send by the agent and gpgsm while learing
the data of a smartcard.
- card_busy :: A smartcard is still working
When <what> refers to a file path, it may be truncated.
<units> is sometimes used to describe the units for <current> and
<total>. For example "B", "KiB", or "MiB".
*** BACKUP_KEY_CREATED <fingerprint> <fname>
A backup of a key identified by <fingerprint> has been writte to
the file <fname>; <fname> is percent-escaped.
*** MOUNTPOINT <name>
<name> is a percent-plus escaped filename describing the
mountpoint for the current operation (e.g. used by "g13 --mount").
This may either be the specified mountpoint or one randomly
chosen by g13.
*** PINENTRY_LAUNCHED <pid>[:<extra>]
This status line is emitted by gpg to notify a client that a
Pinentry has been launched. <pid> is the PID of the Pinentry. It
may be used to display a hint to the user but can't be used to
synchronize with Pinentry. Note that there is also an Assuan
inquiry line with the same name used internally or, if enabled,
send to the client instead of this status line. Such an inquiry
may be used to sync with Pinentry
** Obsolete status codes
*** SIGEXPIRED
Removed on 2011-02-04. This is deprecated in favor of KEYEXPIRED.
*** RSA_OR_IDEA
Obsolete. This status message used to be emitted for requests to
use the IDEA or RSA algorithms. It has been dropped from GnuPG
2.1 after the respective patents expired.
*** SHM_INFO, SHM_GET, SHM_GET_BOOL, SHM_GET_HIDDEN
These were used for the ancient shared memory based co-processing.
*** BEGIN_STREAM, END_STREAM
Used to issued by the experimental pipemode.
** Inter-component codes
Status codes are also used between the components of the GnuPG
system via the Assuan S lines. Some of them are documented here:
*** PUBKEY_INFO <n> <ubid>
The type of the public key in the following D-lines or
communicated via a pipe. <n> is the value of =enum pubkey_types=
and <ubid> the Unique Blob ID (UBID) which is the fingerprint of
the primary key truncated to 20 octets and formatted in hex. Note
that the keyboxd SEARCH command can be used to lookup the public
key using the <ubid> prefixed with a caret (^).
*** KEYPAIRINFO <grip> <keyref> [<usage>] [<keytime>]
This status is emitted by scdaemon and gpg-agent to convey brief
information about keypairs stored on tokens. <grip> is the
hexified keygrip of the key or, if no key is stored, an "X".
<keyref> is the ID of a card's key; for example "OPENPGP.2" for
the second key slot of an OpenPGP card. <usage> is optional and
returns technically possible key usages, this is a string of
single letters describing the usage ('c' for certify, 'e' for
encryption, 's' for signing, 'a' for authentication). A '-' can be
used to tell that usage flags are not conveyed. <keytime> is used
by OpenPGP cards for the stored key creation time. A '-' means no
info available. The format is the usual ISO string are a number
with the seconds since Epoch.
*** MANUFACTURER <n> [<string>]
This status returns the Manufactorer ID as the unsigned number N.
For OpenPGP this is weel defined; for other cards this is 0. The
name of the manufacturer is also given as <string>; spaces are not
escaped. For PKCS#15 cards <string> is TokenInfo.manufactorerID.
* Format of the --attribute-fd output
When --attribute-fd is set, during key listings (--list-keys,
--list-secret-keys) GnuPG dumps each attribute packet to the file
descriptor specified. --attribute-fd is intended for use with
--status-fd as part of the required information is carried on the
ATTRIBUTE status tag (see above).
The contents of the attribute data is specified by RFC 4880. For
convenience, here is the Photo ID format, as it is currently the
only attribute defined:
- Byte 0-1 :: The length of the image header. Due to a historical
accident (i.e. oops!) back in the NAI PGP days, this
is a little-endian number. Currently 16 (0x10 0x00).
- Byte 2 :: The image header version. Currently 0x01.
- Byte 3 :: Encoding format. 0x01 == JPEG.
- Byte 4-15 :: Reserved, and currently unused.
All other data after this header is raw image (JPEG) data.
* Layout of the TrustDB
The TrustDB is built from fixed length records, where the first byte
describes the record type. All numeric values are stored in network
byte order. The length of each record is 40 bytes. The first
record of the DB is always of type 1 and this is the only record of
this type.
The record types: directory(2), key(3), uid(4), pref(5), sigrec(6),
and shadow directory(8) are not anymore used by version 2 of the
TrustDB.
** Record type 0
Unused record or deleted, can be reused for any purpose. Such
records should in general not exist because deleted records are of
type 254 and kept in a linked list.
** Version info (RECTYPE_VER, 1)
Version information for this TrustDB. This is always the first
record of the DB and the only one of this type.
- 1 u8 :: Record type (value: 1).
- 3 byte :: Magic value ("gpg")
- 1 u8 :: TrustDB version (value: 2).
- 1 u8 :: =marginals=. How many marginal trusted keys are required.
- 1 u8 :: =completes=. How many completely trusted keys are
required.
- 1 u8 :: =max_cert_depth=. How deep is the WoT evaluated. Along
with =marginals= and =completes=, this value is used to
check whether the cached validity value from a [FIXME
dir] record can be used.
- 1 u8 :: =trust_model=
- 1 u8 :: =min_cert_level=
- 2 byte :: Not used
- 1 u32 :: =created=. Timestamp of trustdb creation.
- 1 u32 :: =nextcheck=. Timestamp of last modification which may
affect the validity of keys in the trustdb. This value
is checked against the validity timestamp in the dir
records.
- 1 u32 :: =reserved=. Not used.
- 1 u32 :: =reserved2=. Not used.
- 1 u32 :: =firstfree=. Number of the record with the head record
of the RECTYPE_FREE linked list.
- 1 u32 :: =reserved3=. Not used.
- 1 u32 :: =trusthashtbl=. Record number of the trusthashtable.
** Hash table (RECTYPE_HTBL, 10)
Due to the fact that we use fingerprints to lookup keys, we can
implement quick access by some simple hash methods, and avoid the
overhead of gdbm. A property of fingerprints is that they can be
used directly as hash values. What we use is a dynamic multilevel
architecture, which combines hash tables, record lists, and linked
lists.
This record is a hash table of 256 entries with the property that
all these records are stored consecutively to make one big
table. The hash value is simple the 1st, 2nd, ... byte of the
fingerprint (depending on the indirection level).
- 1 u8 :: Record type (value: 10).
- 1 u8 :: Reserved
- n u32 :: =recnum=. A table with the hash table items fitting into
this record. =n= depends on the record length:
$n=(reclen-2)/4$ which yields 9 for oure current record
length of 40 bytes.
The total number of hash table records to form the table is:
$m=(256+n-1)/n$. This is 29 for our record length of 40.
To look up a key we use the first byte of the fingerprint to get
the recnum from this hash table and then look up the addressed
record:
- If that record is another hash table, we use 2nd byte to index
that hash table and so on;
- if that record is a hash list, we walk all entries until we find
a matching one; or
- if that record is a key record, we compare the fingerprint to
decide whether it is the requested key;
** Hash list (RECTYPE_HLST, 11)
See hash table above on how it is used. It may also be used for
other purposes.
- 1 u8 :: Record type (value: 11).
- 1 u8 :: Reserved.
- 1 u32 :: =next=. Record number of the next hash list record or 0
if none.
- n u32 :: =rnum=. Array with record numbers to values. With
$n=(reclen-5)/5$ and our record length of 40, n is 7.
** Trust record (RECTYPE_TRUST, 12)
- 1 u8 :: Record type (value: 12).
- 1 u8 :: Reserved.
- 20 byte :: =fingerprint=.
- 1 u8 :: =ownertrust=.
- 1 u8 :: =depth=.
- 1 u8 :: =min_ownertrust=.
- 1 byte :: Not used.
- 1 u32 :: =validlist=.
- 10 byte :: Not used.
** Validity record (RECTYPE_VALID, 13)
- 1 u8 :: Record type (value: 13).
- 1 u8 :: Reserved.
- 20 byte :: =namehash=.
- 1 u8 :: =validity=
- 1 u32 :: =next=.
- 1 u8 :: =full_count=.
- 1 u8 :: =marginal_count=.
- 11 byte :: Not used.
** Free record (RECTYPE_FREE, 254)
All these records form a linked list of unused records in the TrustDB.
- 1 u8 :: Record type (value: 254)
- 1 u8 :: Reserved.
- 1 u32 :: =next=. Record number of the next rcord of this type.
The record number to the head of this linked list is
stored in the version info record.
* Database scheme for the TOFU info
#+begin_src sql
--
-- The VERSION table holds the version of our TOFU data structures.
--
CREATE TABLE version (
version integer -- As of now this is always 1
);
--
-- The BINDINGS table associates mail addresses with keys.
--
CREATE TABLE bindings (
oid integer primary key autoincrement,
fingerprint text, -- The key's fingerprint in hex
email text, -- The normalized mail address destilled from user_id
user_id text, -- The unmodified user id
time integer, -- The time this binding was first observed.
policy boolean check
(policy in (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)), -- The trust policy with the values:
-- 1 := Auto
-- 2 := Good
-- 3 := Unknown
-- 4 := Bad
-- 5 := Ask
conflict string, -- NULL or a hex formatted fingerprint.
unique (fingerprint, email)
);
CREATE INDEX bindings_fingerprint_email on bindings (fingerprint, email);
CREATE INDEX bindings_email on bindings (email);
--
-- The SIGNATURES table records all data signatures we verified
--
CREATE TABLE signatures (
binding integer not null, -- Link to bindings table,
-- references bindings.oid.
sig_digest text, -- The digest of the signed message.
origin text, -- String describing who initially fed
-- the signature to gpg (e.g. "email:claws").
sig_time integer, -- Timestamp from the signature.
time integer, -- Time this record was created.
primary key (binding, sig_digest, origin)
);
#+end_src
* GNU extensions to the S2K algorithm
1 octet - S2K Usage: either 254 or 255.
1 octet - S2K Cipher Algo: 0
1 octet - S2K Specifier: 101
3 octets - "GNU"
1 octet - GNU S2K Extension Number.
If such a GNU extension is used neither an IV nor any kind of
checksum is used. The defined GNU S2K Extension Numbers are:
- 1 :: Do not store the secret part at all. No specific data
follows.
- 2 :: A stub to access smartcards. This data follows:
- One octet with the length of the following serial number.
- The serial number. Regardless of what the length octet
indicates no more than 16 octets are stored.
Note that gpg stores the GNU S2K Extension Number internally as an
S2K Specifier with an offset of 1000.
* Format of the OpenPGP TRUST packet
According to RFC4880 (5.10), the trust packet (aka ring trust) is
only used within keyrings and contains data that records the user's
specifications of which key holds trusted introducers. The RFC also
states that the format of this packet is implementation defined and
SHOULD NOT be emitted to output streams or should be ignored on
import. GnuPG uses this packet in several additional ways:
- 1 octet :: Trust-Value (only used by Subtype SIG)
- 1 octet :: Signature-Cache (only used by Subtype SIG; value must
be less than 128)
- 3 octets :: Fixed value: "gpg"
- 1 octet :: Subtype
- 0 :: Signature cache (SIG)
- 1 :: Key source on the primary key (KEY)
- 2 :: Key source on a user id (UID)
- 1 octet :: Key Source; i.e. the origin of the key:
- 0 :: Unknown source.
- 1 :: Public keyserver.
- 2 :: Preferred keyserver.
- 3 :: OpenPGP DANE.
- 4 :: Web Key Directory.
- 5 :: Import from a trusted URL.
- 6 :: Import from a trusted file.
- 7 :: Self generated.
- - 4 octets :: Time of last update. This is a a four-octet scalar
+ - 4 octets :: Time of last update. This is a four-octet scalar
with the seconds since Epoch.
- 1 octet :: Scalar with the length of the following field.
- N octets :: String with the URL of the source. This may be a
zero-length string.
If the packets contains only two octets a Subtype of 0 is assumed;
this is the only format recognized by GnuPG versions < 2.1.18.
Trust-Value and Signature-Cache must be zero for all subtypes other
than SIG.
* Keyserver helper message format
*This information is obsolete*
(Keyserver helpers have been replaced by dirmngr)
The keyserver may be contacted by a Unix Domain socket or via TCP.
The format of a request is:
#+begin_example
command-tag
"Content-length:" digits
CRLF
#+end_example
Where command-tag is
#+begin_example
NOOP
GET <user-name>
PUT
DELETE <user-name>
#+end_example
The format of a response is:
#+begin_example
"GNUPG/1.0" status-code status-text
"Content-length:" digits
CRLF
#+end_example
followed by <digits> bytes of data
Status codes are:
- 1xx :: Informational - Request received, continuing process
- 2xx :: Success - The action was successfully received, understood,
and accepted
- 4xx :: Client Error - The request contains bad syntax or cannot be
fulfilled
- 5xx :: Server Error - The server failed to fulfill an apparently
valid request
* Object identifiers
OIDs below the GnuPG arc:
#+begin_example
1.3.6.1.4.1.11591.2 GnuPG
1.3.6.1.4.1.11591.2.1 notation
1.3.6.1.4.1.11591.2.1.1 pkaAddress
1.3.6.1.4.1.11591.2.2 X.509 extensions
1.3.6.1.4.1.11591.2.2.1 standaloneCertificate
1.3.6.1.4.1.11591.2.2.2 wellKnownPrivateKey
1.3.6.1.4.1.11591.2.12242973 invalid encoded OID
#+end_example
* Debug flags
This tables gives the flag values for the --debug option along with
the alternative names used by the components.
| | gpg | gpgsm | agent | scd | dirmngr | g13 | wks |
|-------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------|
| 1 | packet | x509 | | | x509 | mount | mime |
| 2 | mpi | mpi | mpi | mpi | | | parser |
| 4 | crypto | crypto | crypto | crypto | crypto | crypto | crypto |
| 8 | filter | | | | | | |
| 16 | iobuf | | | | dns | | |
| 32 | memory | memory | memory | memory | memory | memory | memory |
| 64 | cache | cache | cache | cache | cache | | |
| 128 | memstat | memstat | memstat | memstat | memstat | memstat | memstat |
| 256 | trust | | | | | | |
| 512 | hashing | hashing | hashing | hashing | hashing | | |
| 1024 | ipc | ipc | ipc | ipc | ipc | ipc | ipc |
| 2048 | | | | cardio | network | | |
| 4096 | clock | | | reader | | | |
| 8192 | lookup | | | | lookup | | |
| 16384 | extprog | | | | | | extprog |
Description of some debug flags:
- cardio :: Used by scdaemon to trace the APDUs exchange with the
card.
- clock :: Show execution times of certain functions.
- crypto :: Trace crypto operations.
- hashing :: Create files with the hashed data.
- ipc :: Trace the Assuan commands.
- mpi :: Show the values of the MPIs.
- reader :: Used by scdaemon to trace card reader related code. For
example: Open and close reader.
* Miscellaneous notes
** v3 fingerprints
For packet version 3 we calculate the keyids this way:
- RSA :: Low 64 bits of n
- ELGAMAL :: Build a v3 pubkey packet (with CTB 0x99) and
calculate a RMD160 hash value from it. This is used
as the fingerprint and the low 64 bits are the keyid.
** Simplified revocation certificates
Revocation certificates consist only of the signature packet;
"--import" knows how to handle this. The rationale behind it is to
keep them small.
** Documentation on HKP (the http keyserver protocol):
A minimalistic HTTP server on port 11371 recognizes a GET for
/pks/lookup. The standard http URL encoded query parameters are
this (always key=value):
- op=index (like pgp -kv), op=vindex (like pgp -kvv) and op=get (like
pgp -kxa)
- search=<stringlist>. This is a list of words that must occur in the key.
The words are delimited with space, points, @ and so on. The delimiters
are not searched for and the order of the words doesn't matter (but see
next option).
- exact=on. This switch tells the hkp server to only report exact matching
keys back. In this case the order and the "delimiters" are important.
- fingerprint=on. Also reports the fingerprints when used with 'index' or
'vindex'
The keyserver also recognizes http-POSTs to /pks/add. Use this to upload
keys.
A better way to do this would be a request like:
/pks/lookup/<gnupg_formatierte_user_id>?op=<operation>
This can be implemented using Hurd's translator mechanism.
However, I think the whole keyserver stuff has to be re-thought;
I have some ideas and probably create a white paper.
** Algorithm names for the "keygen.algo" prompt
When using a --command-fd controlled key generation or "addkey"
there is way to know the number to enter on the "keygen.algo"
prompt. The displayed numbers are for human reception and may
change with releases. To provide a stable way to enter a desired
algorithm choice the prompt also accepts predefined names for the
algorithms, which will not change.
| Name | No | Description |
|---------+----+---------------------------------|
| rsa+rsa | 1 | RSA and RSA (default) |
| dsa+elg | 2 | DSA and Elgamal |
| dsa | 3 | DSA (sign only) |
| rsa/s | 4 | RSA (sign only) |
| elg | 5 | Elgamal (encrypt only) |
| rsa/e | 6 | RSA (encrypt only) |
| dsa/* | 7 | DSA (set your own capabilities) |
| rsa/* | 8 | RSA (set your own capabilities) |
| ecc+ecc | 9 | ECC and ECC |
| ecc/s | 10 | ECC (sign only) |
| ecc/* | 11 | ECC (set your own capabilities) |
| ecc/e | 12 | ECC (encrypt only) |
| keygrip | 13 | Existing key |
| cardkey | 14 | Existing key from card |
If one of the "foo/*" names are used a "keygen.flags" prompt needs
to be answered as well. Instead of toggling the predefined flags,
it is also possible to set them direct: Use a "=" character
directly followed by a combination of "a" (for authentication), "s"
(for signing), or "c" (for certification).
diff --git a/doc/gpg-agent.texi b/doc/gpg-agent.texi
index 6b39d73cd..3955ed0e2 100644
--- a/doc/gpg-agent.texi
+++ b/doc/gpg-agent.texi
@@ -1,1627 +1,1627 @@
@c Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c This is part of the GnuPG manual.
@c For copying conditions, see the file gnupg.texi.
@include defs.inc
@node Invoking GPG-AGENT
@chapter Invoking GPG-AGENT
@cindex GPG-AGENT command options
@cindex command options
@cindex options, GPG-AGENT command
@manpage gpg-agent.1
@ifset manverb
.B gpg-agent
\- Secret key management for GnuPG
@end ifset
@mansect synopsis
@ifset manverb
.B gpg-agent
.RB [ \-\-homedir
.IR dir ]
.RB [ \-\-options
.IR file ]
.RI [ options ]
.br
.B gpg-agent
.RB [ \-\-homedir
.IR dir ]
.RB [ \-\-options
.IR file ]
.RI [ options ]
.B \-\-server
.br
.B gpg-agent
.RB [ \-\-homedir
.IR dir ]
.RB [ \-\-options
.IR file ]
.RI [ options ]
.B \-\-daemon
.RI [ command_line ]
@end ifset
@mansect description
@command{gpg-agent} is a daemon to manage secret (private) keys
independently from any protocol. It is used as a backend for
@command{gpg} and @command{gpgsm} as well as for a couple of other
utilities.
The agent is automatically started on demand by @command{gpg},
@command{gpgsm}, @command{gpgconf}, or @command{gpg-connect-agent}.
Thus there is no reason to start it manually. In case you want to use
the included Secure Shell Agent you may start the agent using:
@c From dkg on gnupg-devel on 2016-04-21:
@c
@c Here's an attempt at writing a short description of the goals of an
@c isolated cryptographic agent:
@c
@c A cryptographic agent should control access to secret key material.
@c The agent permits use of the secret key material by a supplicant
@c without providing a copy of the secret key material to the supplicant.
@c
@c An isolated cryptographic agent separates the request for use of
@c secret key material from permission for use of secret key material.
@c That is, the system or process requesting use of the key (the
@c "supplicant") can be denied use of the key by the owner/operator of
@c the agent (the "owner"), which the supplicant has no control over.
@c
@c One way of enforcing this split is a per-key or per-session
@c passphrase, known only by the owner, which must be supplied to the
@c agent to permit the use of the secret key material. Another way is
@c with an out-of-band permission mechanism (e.g. a button or GUI
@c interface that the owner has access to, but the supplicant does not).
@c
@c The rationale for this separation is that it allows access to the
@c secret key to be tightly controlled and audited, and it doesn't permit
@c the supplicant to either copy the key or to override the owner's
@c intentions.
@example
gpg-connect-agent /bye
@end example
@noindent
If you want to manually terminate the currently-running agent, you can
safely do so with:
@example
gpgconf --kill gpg-agent
@end example
@noindent
@efindex GPG_TTY
You should always add the following lines to your @code{.bashrc} or
whatever initialization file is used for all shell invocations:
@smallexample
GPG_TTY=$(tty)
export GPG_TTY
@end smallexample
@noindent
It is important that this environment variable always reflects the
output of the @code{tty} command. For W32 systems this option is not
required.
Please make sure that a proper pinentry program has been installed
under the default filename (which is system dependent) or use the
option @option{pinentry-program} to specify the full name of that program.
It is often useful to install a symbolic link from the actual used
pinentry (e.g. @file{@value{BINDIR}/pinentry-gtk}) to the expected
one (e.g. @file{@value{BINDIR}/pinentry}).
@manpause
@noindent
@xref{Option Index}, for an index to @command{GPG-AGENT}'s commands and options.
@mancont
@menu
* Agent Commands:: List of all commands.
* Agent Options:: List of all options.
* Agent Configuration:: Configuration files.
* Agent Signals:: Use of some signals.
* Agent Examples:: Some usage examples.
* Agent Protocol:: The protocol the agent uses.
@end menu
@mansect commands
@node Agent Commands
@section Commands
Commands are not distinguished from options except for the fact that
only one command is allowed.
@table @gnupgtabopt
@item --version
@opindex version
Print the program version and licensing information. Note that you cannot
abbreviate this command.
@item --help
@itemx -h
@opindex help
Print a usage message summarizing the most useful command-line options.
Note that you cannot abbreviate this command.
@item --dump-options
@opindex dump-options
Print a list of all available options and commands. Note that you cannot
abbreviate this command.
@item --server
@opindex server
Run in server mode and wait for commands on the @code{stdin}. The
default mode is to create a socket and listen for commands there.
@item --daemon [@var{command line}]
@opindex daemon
Start the gpg-agent as a daemon; that is, detach it from the console
and run it in the background.
As an alternative you may create a new process as a child of
gpg-agent: @code{gpg-agent --daemon /bin/sh}. This way you get a new
shell with the environment setup properly; after you exit from this
shell, gpg-agent terminates within a few seconds.
@item --supervised
@opindex supervised
Run in the foreground, sending logs by default to stderr, and
listening on provided file descriptors, which must already be bound to
listening sockets. This command is useful when running under systemd
or other similar process supervision schemes. This option is not
supported on Windows.
In --supervised mode, different file descriptors can be provided for
use as different socket types (e.g. ssh, extra) as long as they are
identified in the environment variable @code{LISTEN_FDNAMES} (see
sd_listen_fds(3) on some Linux distributions for more information on
this convention).
@end table
@mansect options
@node Agent Options
@section Option Summary
Options may either be used on the command line or, after stripping off
the two leading dashes, in the configuration file.
@table @gnupgtabopt
@anchor{option --options}
@item --options @var{file}
@opindex options
Reads configuration from @var{file} instead of from the default
per-user configuration file. The default configuration file is named
@file{gpg-agent.conf} and expected in the @file{.gnupg} directory
directly below the home directory of the user. This option is ignored
if used in an options file.
@anchor{option --homedir}
@include opt-homedir.texi
@item -v
@item --verbose
@opindex verbose
Outputs additional information while running.
You can increase the verbosity by giving several
verbose commands to @command{gpg-agent}, such as @samp{-vv}.
@item -q
@item --quiet
@opindex quiet
Try to be as quiet as possible.
@item --batch
@opindex batch
Don't invoke a pinentry or do any other thing requiring human interaction.
@item --faked-system-time @var{epoch}
@opindex faked-system-time
This option is only useful for testing; it sets the system time back or
forth to @var{epoch} which is the number of seconds elapsed since the year
1970.
@item --debug-level @var{level}
@opindex debug-level
Select the debug level for investigating problems. @var{level} may be
a numeric value or a keyword:
@table @code
@item none
No debugging at all. A value of less than 1 may be used instead of
the keyword.
@item basic
Some basic debug messages. A value between 1 and 2 may be used
instead of the keyword.
@item advanced
More verbose debug messages. A value between 3 and 5 may be used
instead of the keyword.
@item expert
Even more detailed messages. A value between 6 and 8 may be used
instead of the keyword.
@item guru
All of the debug messages you can get. A value greater than 8 may be
used instead of the keyword. The creation of hash tracing files is
only enabled if the keyword is used.
@end table
How these messages are mapped to the actual debugging flags is not
specified and may change with newer releases of this program. They are
however carefully selected to best aid in debugging.
@item --debug @var{flags}
@opindex debug
This option is only useful for debugging and the behavior may change at
any time without notice. FLAGS are bit encoded and may be given in
usual C-Syntax. The currently defined bits are:
@table @code
@item 0 (1)
X.509 or OpenPGP protocol related data
@item 1 (2)
values of big number integers
@item 2 (4)
low level crypto operations
@item 5 (32)
memory allocation
@item 6 (64)
caching
@item 7 (128)
show memory statistics
@item 9 (512)
write hashed data to files named @code{dbgmd-000*}
@item 10 (1024)
trace Assuan protocol
@item 12 (4096)
bypass all certificate validation
@end table
@item --debug-all
@opindex debug-all
Same as @code{--debug=0xffffffff}
@item --debug-wait @var{n}
@opindex debug-wait
When running in server mode, wait @var{n} seconds before entering the
actual processing loop and print the pid. This gives time to attach a
debugger.
@item --debug-quick-random
@opindex debug-quick-random
This option inhibits the use of the very secure random quality level
(Libgcrypt’s @code{GCRY_VERY_STRONG_RANDOM}) and degrades all request
down to standard random quality. It is only used for testing and
should not be used for any production quality keys. This option is
only effective when given on the command line.
On GNU/Linux, another way to quickly generate insecure keys is to use
@command{rngd} to fill the kernel's entropy pool with lower quality
random data. @command{rngd} is typically provided by the
@command{rng-tools} package. It can be run as follows: @samp{sudo
rngd -f -r /dev/urandom}.
@item --debug-pinentry
@opindex debug-pinentry
This option enables extra debug information pertaining to the
Pinentry. As of now it is only useful when used along with
@code{--debug 1024}.
@item --no-detach
@opindex no-detach
Don't detach the process from the console. This is mainly useful for
debugging.
@item -s
@itemx --sh
@itemx -c
@itemx --csh
@opindex sh
@opindex csh
@efindex SHELL
Format the info output in daemon mode for use with the standard Bourne
shell or the C-shell respectively. The default is to guess it based on
the environment variable @code{SHELL} which is correct in almost all
cases.
@item --grab
@itemx --no-grab
@opindex grab
@opindex no-grab
Tell the pinentry to grab the keyboard and mouse. This option should
be used on X-Servers to avoid X-sniffing attacks. Any use of the
option @option{--grab} overrides an used option @option{--no-grab}.
The default is @option{--no-grab}.
@anchor{option --log-file}
@item --log-file @var{file}
@opindex log-file
@efindex HKCU\Software\GNU\GnuPG:DefaultLogFile
Append all logging output to @var{file}. This is very helpful in
seeing what the agent actually does. Use @file{socket://} to log to
socket. If neither a log file nor a log file descriptor has been set
on a Windows platform, the Registry entry
@code{HKCU\Software\GNU\GnuPG:DefaultLogFile}, if set, is used to
specify the logging output.
@anchor{option --no-allow-mark-trusted}
@item --no-allow-mark-trusted
@opindex no-allow-mark-trusted
Do not allow clients to mark keys as trusted, i.e. put them into the
@file{trustlist.txt} file. This makes it harder for users to inadvertently
accept Root-CA keys.
@anchor{option --allow-preset-passphrase}
@item --allow-preset-passphrase
@opindex allow-preset-passphrase
This option allows the use of @command{gpg-preset-passphrase} to seed the
internal cache of @command{gpg-agent} with passphrases.
@anchor{option --no-allow-loopback-pinentry}
@item --no-allow-loopback-pinentry
@item --allow-loopback-pinentry
@opindex no-allow-loopback-pinentry
@opindex allow-loopback-pinentry
Disallow or allow clients to use the loopback pinentry features; see
the option @option{pinentry-mode} for details. Allow is the default.
The @option{--force} option of the Assuan command @command{DELETE_KEY}
is also controlled by this option: The option is ignored if a loopback
pinentry is disallowed.
@item --no-allow-external-cache
@opindex no-allow-external-cache
Tell Pinentry not to enable features which use an external cache for
passphrases.
Some desktop environments prefer to unlock all
credentials with one master password and may have installed a Pinentry
which employs an additional external cache to implement such a policy.
By using this option the Pinentry is advised not to make use of such a
cache and instead always ask the user for the requested passphrase.
@item --allow-emacs-pinentry
@opindex allow-emacs-pinentry
Tell Pinentry to allow features to divert the passphrase entry to a
running Emacs instance. How this is exactly handled depends on the
version of the used Pinentry.
@item --ignore-cache-for-signing
@opindex ignore-cache-for-signing
This option will let @command{gpg-agent} bypass the passphrase cache for all
signing operation. Note that there is also a per-session option to
control this behavior but this command line option takes precedence.
@item --default-cache-ttl @var{n}
@opindex default-cache-ttl
Set the time a cache entry is valid to @var{n} seconds. The default
is 600 seconds. Each time a cache entry is accessed, the entry's
timer is reset. To set an entry's maximum lifetime, use
-@command{max-cache-ttl}. Note that a cached passphrase may not
+@command{max-cache-ttl}. Note that a cached passphrase may not be
evicted immediately from memory if no client requests a cache
operation. This is due to an internal housekeeping function which is
only run every few seconds.
@item --default-cache-ttl-ssh @var{n}
@opindex default-cache-ttl
Set the time a cache entry used for SSH keys is valid to @var{n}
seconds. The default is 1800 seconds. Each time a cache entry is
accessed, the entry's timer is reset. To set an entry's maximum
lifetime, use @command{max-cache-ttl-ssh}.
@item --max-cache-ttl @var{n}
@opindex max-cache-ttl
Set the maximum time a cache entry is valid to @var{n} seconds. After
this time a cache entry will be expired even if it has been accessed
recently or has been set using @command{gpg-preset-passphrase}. The
default is 2 hours (7200 seconds).
@item --max-cache-ttl-ssh @var{n}
@opindex max-cache-ttl-ssh
Set the maximum time a cache entry used for SSH keys is valid to
@var{n} seconds. After this time a cache entry will be expired even
if it has been accessed recently or has been set using
@command{gpg-preset-passphrase}. The default is 2 hours (7200
seconds).
@item --enforce-passphrase-constraints
@opindex enforce-passphrase-constraints
Enforce the passphrase constraints by not allowing the user to bypass
them using the ``Take it anyway'' button.
@item --min-passphrase-len @var{n}
@opindex min-passphrase-len
Set the minimal length of a passphrase. When entering a new passphrase
shorter than this value a warning will be displayed. Defaults to 8.
@item --min-passphrase-nonalpha @var{n}
@opindex min-passphrase-nonalpha
Set the minimal number of digits or special characters required in a
passphrase. When entering a new passphrase with less than this number
of digits or special characters a warning will be displayed. Defaults
to 1.
@item --check-passphrase-pattern @var{file}
@opindex check-passphrase-pattern
Check the passphrase against the pattern given in @var{file}. When
entering a new passphrase matching one of these pattern a warning will
be displayed. @var{file} should be an absolute filename. The default is
not to use any pattern file.
Security note: It is known that checking a passphrase against a list of
pattern or even against a complete dictionary is not very effective to
enforce good passphrases. Users will soon figure up ways to bypass such
a policy. A better policy is to educate users on good security
behavior and optionally to run a passphrase cracker regularly on all
users passphrases to catch the very simple ones.
@item --max-passphrase-days @var{n}
@opindex max-passphrase-days
Ask the user to change the passphrase if @var{n} days have passed since
the last change. With @option{--enforce-passphrase-constraints} set the
user may not bypass this check.
@item --enable-passphrase-history
@opindex enable-passphrase-history
This option does nothing yet.
@item --pinentry-invisible-char @var{char}
@opindex pinentry-invisible-char
This option asks the Pinentry to use @var{char} for displaying hidden
characters. @var{char} must be one character UTF-8 string. A
Pinentry may or may not honor this request.
@item --pinentry-timeout @var{n}
@opindex pinentry-timeout
This option asks the Pinentry to timeout after @var{n} seconds with no
user input. The default value of 0 does not ask the pinentry to
timeout, however a Pinentry may use its own default timeout value in
this case. A Pinentry may or may not honor this request.
@item --pinentry-program @var{filename}
@opindex pinentry-program
Use program @var{filename} as the PIN entry. The default is
installation dependent. With the default configuration the name of
the default pinentry is @file{pinentry}; if that file does not exist
but a @file{pinentry-basic} exist the latter is used.
On a Windows platform the default is to use the first existing program
from this list:
@file{bin\pinentry.exe},
@file{..\Gpg4win\bin\pinentry.exe},
@file{..\Gpg4win\pinentry.exe},
@file{..\GNU\GnuPG\pinentry.exe},
@file{..\GNU\bin\pinentry.exe},
@file{bin\pinentry-basic.exe}
where the file names are relative to the GnuPG installation directory.
@item --pinentry-touch-file @var{filename}
@opindex pinentry-touch-file
By default the filename of the socket gpg-agent is listening for
requests is passed to Pinentry, so that it can touch that file before
exiting (it does this only in curses mode). This option changes the
file passed to Pinentry to @var{filename}. The special name
@code{/dev/null} may be used to completely disable this feature. Note
that Pinentry will not create that file, it will only change the
modification and access time.
@item --scdaemon-program @var{filename}
@opindex scdaemon-program
Use program @var{filename} as the Smartcard daemon. The default is
installation dependent and can be shown with the @command{gpgconf}
command.
@item --disable-scdaemon
@opindex disable-scdaemon
Do not make use of the scdaemon tool. This option has the effect of
disabling the ability to do smartcard operations. Note, that enabling
this option at runtime does not kill an already forked scdaemon.
@item --disable-check-own-socket
@opindex disable-check-own-socket
@command{gpg-agent} employs a periodic self-test to detect a stolen
socket. This usually means a second instance of @command{gpg-agent}
has taken over the socket and @command{gpg-agent} will then terminate
itself. This option may be used to disable this self-test for
debugging purposes.
@item --use-standard-socket
@itemx --no-use-standard-socket
@itemx --use-standard-socket-p
@opindex use-standard-socket
@opindex no-use-standard-socket
@opindex use-standard-socket-p
Since GnuPG 2.1 the standard socket is always used. These options
have no more effect. The command @code{gpg-agent
--use-standard-socket-p} will thus always return success.
@item --display @var{string}
@itemx --ttyname @var{string}
@itemx --ttytype @var{string}
@itemx --lc-ctype @var{string}
@itemx --lc-messages @var{string}
@itemx --xauthority @var{string}
@opindex display
@opindex ttyname
@opindex ttytype
@opindex lc-ctype
@opindex lc-messages
@opindex xauthority
These options are used with the server mode to pass localization
information.
@item --keep-tty
@itemx --keep-display
@opindex keep-tty
@opindex keep-display
Ignore requests to change the current @code{tty} or X window system's
@code{DISPLAY} variable respectively. This is useful to lock the
pinentry to pop up at the @code{tty} or display you started the agent.
@item --listen-backlog @var{n}
@opindex listen-backlog
Set the size of the queue for pending connections. The default is 64.
@anchor{option --extra-socket}
@item --extra-socket @var{name}
@opindex extra-socket
The extra socket is created by default, you may use this option to
change the name of the socket. To disable the creation of the socket
use ``none'' or ``/dev/null'' for @var{name}.
Also listen on native gpg-agent connections on the given socket. The
intended use for this extra socket is to setup a Unix domain socket
forwarding from a remote machine to this socket on the local machine.
A @command{gpg} running on the remote machine may then connect to the
local gpg-agent and use its private keys. This enables decrypting or
signing data on a remote machine without exposing the private keys to the
remote machine.
@item --enable-extended-key-format
@itemx --disable-extended-key-format
@opindex enable-extended-key-format
@opindex disable-extended-key-format
Since version 2.2.22 keys are created in the extended private key
format by default. Changing the passphrase of a key will also convert
the key to that new format. This key format is supported since GnuPG
version 2.1.12 and thus there should be no need to disable it.
Anyway, the disable option still allows to revert to the old behavior
for new keys; be aware that keys are never migrated back to the old
format. If the enable option has been used the disable option won't
have an effect. The advantage of the extended private key format is
that it is text based and can carry additional meta data. In extended
key format the OCB mode is used for key protection.
@anchor{option --enable-ssh-support}
@item --enable-ssh-support
@itemx --enable-putty-support
@opindex enable-ssh-support
@opindex enable-putty-support
The OpenSSH Agent protocol is always enabled, but @command{gpg-agent}
will only set the @code{SSH_AUTH_SOCK} variable if this flag is given.
In this mode of operation, the agent does not only implement the
gpg-agent protocol, but also the agent protocol used by OpenSSH
(through a separate socket). Consequently, it should be possible to use
the gpg-agent as a drop-in replacement for the well known ssh-agent.
SSH Keys, which are to be used through the agent, need to be added to
the gpg-agent initially through the ssh-add utility. When a key is
added, ssh-add will ask for the password of the provided key file and
send the unprotected key material to the agent; this causes the
gpg-agent to ask for a passphrase, which is to be used for encrypting
the newly received key and storing it in a gpg-agent specific
directory.
Once a key has been added to the gpg-agent this way, the gpg-agent
will be ready to use the key.
Note: in case the gpg-agent receives a signature request, the user might
need to be prompted for a passphrase, which is necessary for decrypting
the stored key. Since the ssh-agent protocol does not contain a
mechanism for telling the agent on which display/terminal it is running,
gpg-agent's ssh-support will use the TTY or X display where gpg-agent
has been started. To switch this display to the current one, the
following command may be used:
@smallexample
gpg-connect-agent updatestartuptty /bye
@end smallexample
Although all GnuPG components try to start the gpg-agent as needed, this
is not possible for the ssh support because ssh does not know about it.
Thus if no GnuPG tool which accesses the agent has been run, there is no
guarantee that ssh is able to use gpg-agent for authentication. To fix
this you may start gpg-agent if needed using this simple command:
@smallexample
gpg-connect-agent /bye
@end smallexample
Adding the @option{--verbose} shows the progress of starting the agent.
The @option{--enable-putty-support} is only available under Windows
and allows the use of gpg-agent with the ssh implementation
@command{putty}. This is similar to the regular ssh-agent support but
makes use of Windows message queue as required by @command{putty}.
@anchor{option --ssh-fingerprint-digest}
@item --ssh-fingerprint-digest
@opindex ssh-fingerprint-digest
Select the digest algorithm used to compute ssh fingerprints that are
communicated to the user, e.g. in pinentry dialogs. OpenSSH has
transitioned from using MD5 to the more secure SHA256.
@item --auto-expand-secmem @var{n}
@opindex auto-expand-secmem
Allow Libgcrypt to expand its secure memory area as required. The
optional value @var{n} is a non-negative integer with a suggested size
in bytes of each additionally allocated secure memory area. The value
is rounded up to the next 32 KiB; usual C style prefixes are allowed.
For an heavy loaded gpg-agent with many concurrent connection this
option avoids sign or decrypt errors due to out of secure memory error
returns.
@item --s2k-calibration @var{milliseconds}
@opindex s2k-calibration
Change the default calibration time to @var{milliseconds}. The given
value is capped at 60 seconds; a value of 0 resets to the compiled-in
default. This option is re-read on a SIGHUP (or @code{gpgconf
--reload gpg-agent}) and the S2K count is then re-calibrated.
@item --s2k-count @var{n}
@opindex s2k-count
Specify the iteration count used to protect the passphrase. This
option can be used to override the auto-calibration done by default.
The auto-calibration computes a count which requires by default 100ms
to mangle a given passphrase. See also @option{--s2k-calibration}.
To view the actually used iteration count and the milliseconds
required for an S2K operation use:
@example
gpg-connect-agent 'GETINFO s2k_count' /bye
gpg-connect-agent 'GETINFO s2k_time' /bye
@end example
To view the auto-calibrated count use:
@example
gpg-connect-agent 'GETINFO s2k_count_cal' /bye
@end example
@end table
@mansect files
@node Agent Configuration
@section Configuration
There are a few configuration files needed for the operation of the
agent. By default they may all be found in the current home directory
(@pxref{option --homedir}).
@table @file
@item gpg-agent.conf
@efindex gpg-agent.conf
This is the standard configuration file read by @command{gpg-agent} on
startup. It may contain any valid long option; the leading
two dashes may not be entered and the option may not be abbreviated.
This file is also read after a @code{SIGHUP} however only a few
options will actually have an effect. This default name may be
changed on the command line (@pxref{option --options}).
You should backup this file.
@item trustlist.txt
@efindex trustlist.txt
This is the list of trusted keys. You should backup this file.
Comment lines, indicated by a leading hash mark, as well as empty
lines are ignored. To mark a key as trusted you need to enter its
fingerprint followed by a space and a capital letter @code{S}. Colons
may optionally be used to separate the bytes of a fingerprint; this
enables cutting and pasting the fingerprint from a key listing output. If
the line is prefixed with a @code{!} the key is explicitly marked as
not trusted.
Here is an example where two keys are marked as ultimately trusted
and one as not trusted:
@cartouche
@smallexample
# CN=Wurzel ZS 3,O=Intevation GmbH,C=DE
A6935DD34EF3087973C706FC311AA2CCF733765B S
# CN=PCA-1-Verwaltung-02/O=PKI-1-Verwaltung/C=DE
DC:BD:69:25:48:BD:BB:7E:31:6E:BB:80:D3:00:80:35:D4:F8:A6:CD S
# CN=Root-CA/O=Schlapphuete/L=Pullach/C=DE
!14:56:98:D3:FE:9C:CA:5A:31:6E:BC:81:D3:11:4E:00:90:A3:44:C2 S
@end smallexample
@end cartouche
Before entering a key into this file, you need to ensure its
authenticity. How to do this depends on your organisation; your
administrator might have already entered those keys which are deemed
trustworthy enough into this file. Places where to look for the
fingerprint of a root certificate are letters received from the CA or
the website of the CA (after making 100% sure that this is indeed the
website of that CA). You may want to consider disallowing interactive
updates of this file by using the @ref{option --no-allow-mark-trusted}.
It might even be advisable to change the permissions to read-only so
that this file can't be changed inadvertently.
As a special feature a line @code{include-default} will include a global
list of trusted certificates (e.g. @file{@value{SYSCONFDIR}/trustlist.txt}).
This global list is also used if the local list is not available.
It is possible to add further flags after the @code{S} for use by the
caller:
@table @code
@item relax
@cindex relax
Relax checking of some root certificate requirements. As of now this
flag allows the use of root certificates with a missing basicConstraints
attribute (despite that it is a MUST for CA certificates) and disables
CRL checking for the root certificate.
@item cm
If validation of a certificate finally issued by a CA with this flag set
fails, try again using the chain validation model.
@end table
@item sshcontrol
@efindex sshcontrol
This file is used when support for the secure shell agent protocol has
been enabled (@pxref{option --enable-ssh-support}). Only keys present in
this file are used in the SSH protocol. You should backup this file.
The @command{ssh-add} tool may be used to add new entries to this file;
you may also add them manually. Comment lines, indicated by a leading
hash mark, as well as empty lines are ignored. An entry starts with
optional whitespace, followed by the keygrip of the key given as 40 hex
digits, optionally followed by the caching TTL in seconds and another
optional field for arbitrary flags. A non-zero TTL overrides the global
default as set by @option{--default-cache-ttl-ssh}.
The only flag support is @code{confirm}. If this flag is found for a
key, each use of the key will pop up a pinentry to confirm the use of
that key. The flag is automatically set if a new key was loaded into
@code{gpg-agent} using the option @option{-c} of the @code{ssh-add}
command.
The keygrip may be prefixed with a @code{!} to disable an entry.
The following example lists exactly one key. Note that keys available
through a OpenPGP smartcard in the active smartcard reader are
implicitly added to this list; i.e. there is no need to list them.
@cartouche
@smallexample
# Key added on: 2011-07-20 20:38:46
# Fingerprint: 5e:8d:c4:ad:e7:af:6e:27:8a:d6:13:e4:79:ad:0b:81
34B62F25E277CF13D3C6BCEBFD3F85D08F0A864B 0 confirm
@end smallexample
@end cartouche
@item private-keys-v1.d/
@efindex private-keys-v1.d
This is the directory where gpg-agent stores the private keys. Each
key is stored in a file with the name made up of the keygrip and the
suffix @file{key}. You should backup all files in this directory
and take great care to keep this backup closed away.
@end table
Note that on larger installations, it is useful to put predefined
files into the directory @file{@value{SYSCONFSKELDIR}} so that newly created
users start up with a working configuration. For existing users the
a small helper script is provided to create these files (@pxref{addgnupghome}).
@c
@c Agent Signals
@c
@mansect signals
@node Agent Signals
@section Use of some signals
A running @command{gpg-agent} may be controlled by signals, i.e. using
the @command{kill} command to send a signal to the process.
Here is a list of supported signals:
@table @gnupgtabopt
@item SIGHUP
@cpindex SIGHUP
This signal flushes all cached passphrases and if the program has been
started with a configuration file, the configuration file is read
again. Only certain options are honored: @code{quiet},
@code{verbose}, @code{debug}, @code{debug-all}, @code{debug-level},
@code{debug-pinentry},
@code{no-grab},
@code{pinentry-program},
@code{pinentry-invisible-char},
@code{default-cache-ttl},
@code{max-cache-ttl}, @code{ignore-cache-for-signing},
@code{s2k-count},
@code{no-allow-external-cache}, @code{allow-emacs-pinentry},
@code{no-allow-mark-trusted}, @code{disable-scdaemon}, and
@code{disable-check-own-socket}. @code{scdaemon-program} is also
supported but due to the current implementation, which calls the
scdaemon only once, it is not of much use unless you manually kill the
scdaemon.
@item SIGTERM
@cpindex SIGTERM
Shuts down the process but waits until all current requests are
fulfilled. If the process has received 3 of these signals and requests
are still pending, a shutdown is forced.
@item SIGINT
@cpindex SIGINT
Shuts down the process immediately.
@item SIGUSR1
@cpindex SIGUSR1
Dump internal information to the log file.
@item SIGUSR2
@cpindex SIGUSR2
This signal is used for internal purposes.
@end table
@c
@c Examples
@c
@mansect examples
@node Agent Examples
@section Examples
It is important to set the environment variable @code{GPG_TTY} in
your login shell, for example in the @file{~/.bashrc} init script:
@cartouche
@example
export GPG_TTY=$(tty)
@end example
@end cartouche
If you enabled the Ssh Agent Support, you also need to tell ssh about
it by adding this to your init script:
@cartouche
@example
unset SSH_AGENT_PID
if [ "$@{gnupg_SSH_AUTH_SOCK_by:-0@}" -ne $$ ]; then
export SSH_AUTH_SOCK="$(gpgconf --list-dirs agent-ssh-socket)"
fi
@end example
@end cartouche
@c
@c Assuan Protocol
@c
@manpause
@node Agent Protocol
@section Agent's Assuan Protocol
Note: this section does only document the protocol, which is used by
GnuPG components; it does not deal with the ssh-agent protocol. To
see the full specification of each command, use
@example
gpg-connect-agent 'help COMMAND' /bye
@end example
@noindent
or just 'help' to list all available commands.
@noindent
The @command{gpg-agent} daemon is started on demand by the GnuPG
components.
To identify a key we use a thing called keygrip which is the SHA-1 hash
of an canonical encoded S-Expression of the public key as used in
Libgcrypt. For the purpose of this interface the keygrip is given as a
hex string. The advantage of using this and not the hash of a
certificate is that it will be possible to use the same keypair for
different protocols, thereby saving space on the token used to keep the
secret keys.
The @command{gpg-agent} may send status messages during a command or when
returning from a command to inform a client about the progress or result of an
operation. For example, the @var{INQUIRE_MAXLEN} status message may be sent
during a server inquire to inform the client of the maximum usable length of
the inquired data (which should not be exceeded).
@menu
* Agent PKDECRYPT:: Decrypting a session key
* Agent PKSIGN:: Signing a Hash
* Agent GENKEY:: Generating a Key
* Agent IMPORT:: Importing a Secret Key
* Agent EXPORT:: Exporting a Secret Key
* Agent ISTRUSTED:: Importing a Root Certificate
* Agent GET_PASSPHRASE:: Ask for a passphrase
* Agent CLEAR_PASSPHRASE:: Expire a cached passphrase
* Agent PRESET_PASSPHRASE:: Set a passphrase for a keygrip
* Agent GET_CONFIRMATION:: Ask for confirmation
* Agent HAVEKEY:: Check whether a key is available
* Agent LEARN:: Register a smartcard
* Agent PASSWD:: Change a Passphrase
* Agent UPDATESTARTUPTTY:: Change the Standard Display
* Agent GETEVENTCOUNTER:: Get the Event Counters
* Agent GETINFO:: Return information about the process
* Agent OPTION:: Set options for the session
@end menu
@node Agent PKDECRYPT
@subsection Decrypting a session key
The client asks the server to decrypt a session key. The encrypted
session key should have all information needed to select the
appropriate secret key or to delegate it to a smartcard.
@example
SETKEY <keyGrip>
@end example
Tell the server about the key to be used for decryption. If this is
not used, @command{gpg-agent} may try to figure out the key by trying to
decrypt the message with each key available.
@example
PKDECRYPT
@end example
The agent checks whether this command is allowed and then does an
INQUIRY to get the ciphertext the client should then send the cipher
text.
@example
S: INQUIRE CIPHERTEXT
C: D (xxxxxx
C: D xxxx)
C: END
@end example
Please note that the server may send status info lines while reading the
data lines from the client. The data send is a SPKI like S-Exp with
this structure:
@example
(enc-val
(<algo>
(<param_name1> <mpi>)
...
(<param_namen> <mpi>)))
@end example
Where algo is a string with the name of the algorithm; see the libgcrypt
documentation for a list of valid algorithms. The number and names of
the parameters depend on the algorithm. The agent does return an error
if there is an inconsistency.
If the decryption was successful the decrypted data is returned by
means of "D" lines.
Here is an example session:
@cartouche
@smallexample
C: PKDECRYPT
S: INQUIRE CIPHERTEXT
C: D (enc-val elg (a 349324324)
C: D (b 3F444677CA)))
C: END
S: # session key follows
S: S PADDING 0
S: D (value 1234567890ABCDEF0)
S: OK decryption successful
@end smallexample
@end cartouche
The “PADDING” status line is only send if gpg-agent can tell what kind
of padding is used. As of now only the value 0 is used to indicate
that the padding has been removed.
@node Agent PKSIGN
@subsection Signing a Hash
The client asks the agent to sign a given hash value. A default key
will be chosen if no key has been set. To set a key a client first
uses:
@example
SIGKEY <keyGrip>
@end example
This can be used multiple times to create multiple signature, the list
of keys is reset with the next PKSIGN command or a RESET. The server
tests whether the key is a valid key to sign something and responds with
okay.
@example
SETHASH --hash=<name>|<algo> <hexstring>
@end example
The client can use this command to tell the server about the data <hexstring>
(which usually is a hash) to be signed. <algo> is the decimal encoded hash
algorithm number as used by Libgcrypt. Either <algo> or --hash=<name>
must be given. Valid names for <name> are:
@table @code
@item sha1
The SHA-1 hash algorithm
@item sha256
The SHA-256 hash algorithm
@item rmd160
The RIPE-MD160 hash algorithm
@item md5
The old and broken MD5 hash algorithm
@item tls-md5sha1
A combined hash algorithm as used by the TLS protocol.
@end table
@noindent
The actual signing is done using
@example
PKSIGN <options>
@end example
Options are not yet defined, but may later be used to choose among
different algorithms. The agent does then some checks, asks for the
passphrase and as a result the server returns the signature as an SPKI
like S-expression in "D" lines:
@example
(sig-val
(<algo>
(<param_name1> <mpi>)
...
(<param_namen> <mpi>)))
@end example
The operation is affected by the option
@example
OPTION use-cache-for-signing=0|1
@end example
The default of @code{1} uses the cache. Setting this option to @code{0}
will lead @command{gpg-agent} to ignore the passphrase cache. Note, that there is
also a global command line option for @command{gpg-agent} to globally disable the
caching.
Here is an example session:
@cartouche
@smallexample
C: SIGKEY <keyGrip>
S: OK key available
C: SIGKEY <keyGrip>
S: OK key available
C: PKSIGN
S: # I did ask the user whether he really wants to sign
S: # I did ask the user for the passphrase
S: INQUIRE HASHVAL
C: D ABCDEF012345678901234
C: END
S: # signature follows
S: D (sig-val rsa (s 45435453654612121212))
S: OK
@end smallexample
@end cartouche
@node Agent GENKEY
@subsection Generating a Key
This is used to create a new keypair and store the secret key inside the
active PSE --- which is in most cases a Soft-PSE. A not-yet-defined
option allows choosing the storage location. To get the secret key out
of the PSE, a special export tool has to be used.
@example
GENKEY [--no-protection] [--preset] [<cache_nonce>]
@end example
Invokes the key generation process and the server will then inquire
on the generation parameters, like:
@example
S: INQUIRE KEYPARM
C: D (genkey (rsa (nbits 1024)))
C: END
@end example
The format of the key parameters which depends on the algorithm is of
the form:
@example
(genkey
(algo
(parameter_name_1 ....)
....
(parameter_name_n ....)))
@end example
If everything succeeds, the server returns the *public key* in a SPKI
like S-Expression like this:
@example
(public-key
(rsa
(n <mpi>)
(e <mpi>)))
@end example
Here is an example session:
@cartouche
@smallexample
C: GENKEY
S: INQUIRE KEYPARM
C: D (genkey (rsa (nbits 1024)))
C: END
S: D (public-key
S: D (rsa (n 326487324683264) (e 10001)))
S OK key created
@end smallexample
@end cartouche
The @option{--no-protection} option may be used to prevent prompting for a
passphrase to protect the secret key while leaving the secret key unprotected.
The @option{--preset} option may be used to add the passphrase to the cache
using the default cache parameters.
The @option{--inq-passwd} option may be used to create the key with a
supplied passphrase. When used the agent does an inquiry with the
keyword @code{NEWPASSWD} to retrieve that passphrase. This option
takes precedence over @option{--no-protection}; however if the client
sends a empty (zero-length) passphrase, this is identical to
@option{--no-protection}.
@node Agent IMPORT
@subsection Importing a Secret Key
This operation is not yet supported by GpgAgent. Specialized tools
are to be used for this.
There is no actual need because we can expect that secret keys
created by a 3rd party are stored on a smartcard. If we have
generated the key ourselves, we do not need to import it.
@node Agent EXPORT
@subsection Export a Secret Key
Not implemented.
Should be done by an extra tool.
@node Agent ISTRUSTED
@subsection Importing a Root Certificate
Actually we do not import a Root Cert but provide a way to validate
any piece of data by storing its Hash along with a description and
an identifier in the PSE. Here is the interface description:
@example
ISTRUSTED <fingerprint>
@end example
Check whether the OpenPGP primary key or the X.509 certificate with the
given fingerprint is an ultimately trusted key or a trusted Root CA
certificate. The fingerprint should be given as a hexstring (without
any blanks or colons or whatever in between) and may be left padded with
00 in case of an MD5 fingerprint. GPGAgent will answer with:
@example
OK
@end example
The key is in the table of trusted keys.
@example
ERR 304 (Not Trusted)
@end example
The key is not in this table.
Gpg needs the entire list of trusted keys to maintain the web of
trust; the following command is therefore quite helpful:
@example
LISTTRUSTED
@end example
GpgAgent returns a list of trusted keys line by line:
@example
S: D 000000001234454556565656677878AF2F1ECCFF P
S: D 340387563485634856435645634856438576457A P
S: D FEDC6532453745367FD83474357495743757435D S
S: OK
@end example
The first item on a line is the hexified fingerprint where MD5
fingerprints are @code{00} padded to the left and the second item is a
flag to indicate the type of key (so that gpg is able to only take care
of PGP keys). P = OpenPGP, S = S/MIME. A client should ignore the rest
of the line, so that we can extend the format in the future.
Finally a client should be able to mark a key as trusted:
@example
MARKTRUSTED @var{fingerprint} "P"|"S"
@end example
The server will then pop up a window to ask the user whether she
really trusts this key. For this it will probably ask for a text to
be displayed like this:
@example
S: INQUIRE TRUSTDESC
C: D Do you trust the key with the fingerprint @@FPR@@
C: D bla fasel blurb.
C: END
S: OK
@end example
Known sequences with the pattern @@foo@@ are replaced according to this
table:
@table @code
@item @@FPR16@@
Format the fingerprint according to gpg rules for a v3 keys.
@item @@FPR20@@
Format the fingerprint according to gpg rules for a v4 keys.
@item @@FPR@@
Choose an appropriate format to format the fingerprint.
@item @@@@
Replaced by a single @code{@@}.
@end table
@node Agent GET_PASSPHRASE
@subsection Ask for a passphrase
This function is usually used to ask for a passphrase to be used for
symmetric encryption, but may also be used by programs which need
special handling of passphrases. This command uses a syntax which helps
clients to use the agent with minimum effort.
@example
GET_PASSPHRASE [--data] [--check] [--no-ask] [--repeat[=N]] \
[--qualitybar] @var{cache_id} \
[@var{error_message} @var{prompt} @var{description}]
@end example
@var{cache_id} is expected to be a string used to identify a cached
passphrase. Use a @code{X} to bypass the cache. With no other
arguments the agent returns a cached passphrase or an error. By
convention either the hexified fingerprint of the key shall be used for
@var{cache_id} or an arbitrary string prefixed with the name of the
calling application and a colon: Like @code{gpg:somestring}.
@var{error_message} is either a single @code{X} for no error message or
a string to be shown as an error message like (e.g. "invalid
passphrase"). Blanks must be percent escaped or replaced by @code{+}'.
@var{prompt} is either a single @code{X} for a default prompt or the
text to be shown as the prompt. Blanks must be percent escaped or
replaced by @code{+}.
@var{description} is a text shown above the entry field. Blanks must be
percent escaped or replaced by @code{+}.
The agent either returns with an error or with a OK followed by the hex
encoded passphrase. Note that the length of the strings is implicitly
limited by the maximum length of a command. If the option
@option{--data} is used, the passphrase is not returned on the OK line
but by regular data lines; this is the preferred method.
If the option @option{--check} is used, the standard passphrase
constraints checks are applied. A check is not done if the passphrase
has been found in the cache.
If the option @option{--no-ask} is used and the passphrase is not in the
cache the user will not be asked to enter a passphrase but the error
code @code{GPG_ERR_NO_DATA} is returned.
If the option @option{--qualitybar} is used and a minimum passphrase
length has been configured, a visual indication of the entered
passphrase quality is shown.
@example
CLEAR_PASSPHRASE @var{cache_id}
@end example
may be used to invalidate the cache entry for a passphrase. The
function returns with OK even when there is no cached passphrase.
@node Agent CLEAR_PASSPHRASE
@subsection Remove a cached passphrase
Use this command to remove a cached passphrase.
@example
CLEAR_PASSPHRASE [--mode=normal] <cache_id>
@end example
The @option{--mode=normal} option can be used to clear a @var{cache_id} that
was set by gpg-agent.
@node Agent PRESET_PASSPHRASE
@subsection Set a passphrase for a keygrip
This command adds a passphrase to the cache for the specified @var{keygrip}.
@example
PRESET_PASSPHRASE [--inquire] <string_or_keygrip> <timeout> [<hexstring>]
@end example
The passphrase is a hexadecimal string when specified. When not specified, the
passphrase will be retrieved from the pinentry module unless the
@option{--inquire} option was specified in which case the passphrase will be
retrieved from the client.
The @var{timeout} parameter keeps the passphrase cached for the specified
number of seconds. A value of @code{-1} means infinite while @code{0} means
the default (currently only a timeout of -1 is allowed, which means to never
expire it).
@node Agent GET_CONFIRMATION
@subsection Ask for confirmation
This command may be used to ask for a simple confirmation by
presenting a text and 2 buttons: Okay and Cancel.
@example
GET_CONFIRMATION @var{description}
@end example
@var{description}is displayed along with a Okay and Cancel
button. Blanks must be percent escaped or replaced by @code{+}. A
@code{X} may be used to display confirmation dialog with a default
text.
The agent either returns with an error or with a OK. Note, that the
length of @var{description} is implicitly limited by the maximum
length of a command.
@node Agent HAVEKEY
@subsection Check whether a key is available
This can be used to see whether a secret key is available. It does
not return any information on whether the key is somehow protected.
@example
HAVEKEY @var{keygrips}
@end example
The agent answers either with OK or @code{No_Secret_Key} (208). The
caller may want to check for other error codes as well. More than one
keygrip may be given. In this case the command returns success if at
least one of the keygrips corresponds to an available secret key.
@node Agent LEARN
@subsection Register a smartcard
@example
LEARN [--send]
@end example
This command is used to register a smartcard. With the @option{--send}
option given the certificates are sent back.
@node Agent PASSWD
@subsection Change a Passphrase
@example
PASSWD [--cache-nonce=<c>] [--passwd-nonce=<s>] [--preset] @var{keygrip}
@end example
This command is used to interactively change the passphrase of the key
identified by the hex string @var{keygrip}. The @option{--preset}
option may be used to add the new passphrase to the cache using the
default cache parameters.
@node Agent UPDATESTARTUPTTY
@subsection Change the standard display
@example
UPDATESTARTUPTTY
@end example
Set the startup TTY and X-DISPLAY variables to the values of this
session. This command is useful to direct future pinentry invocations
to another screen. It is only required because there is no way in the
ssh-agent protocol to convey this information.
@node Agent GETEVENTCOUNTER
@subsection Get the Event Counters
@example
GETEVENTCOUNTER
@end example
This function return one status line with the current values of the
event counters. The event counters are useful to avoid polling by
delaying a poll until something has changed. The values are decimal
numbers in the range @code{0} to @code{UINT_MAX} and wrapping around to
0. The actual values should not be relied upon; they shall only be used
to detect a change.
The currently defined counters are:
@table @code
@item ANY
Incremented with any change of any of the other counters.
@item KEY
Incremented for added or removed private keys.
@item CARD
Incremented for changes of the card readers stati.
@end table
@node Agent GETINFO
@subsection Return information about the process
This is a multipurpose function to return a variety of information.
@example
GETINFO @var{what}
@end example
The value of @var{what} specifies the kind of information returned:
@table @code
@item version
Return the version of the program.
@item pid
Return the process id of the process.
@item socket_name
Return the name of the socket used to connect the agent.
@item ssh_socket_name
Return the name of the socket used for SSH connections. If SSH support
has not been enabled the error @code{GPG_ERR_NO_DATA} will be returned.
@end table
@node Agent OPTION
@subsection Set options for the session
Here is a list of session options which are not yet described with
other commands. The general syntax for an Assuan option is:
@smallexample
OPTION @var{key}=@var{value}
@end smallexample
@noindent
Supported @var{key}s are:
@table @code
@item agent-awareness
This may be used to tell gpg-agent of which gpg-agent version the
client is aware of. gpg-agent uses this information to enable
features which might break older clients.
@item putenv
Change the session's environment to be used for the
Pinentry. Valid values are:
@table @code
@item @var{name}
Delete envvar @var{name}
@item @var{name}=
Set envvar @var{name} to the empty string
@item @var{name}=@var{value}
Set envvar @var{name} to the string @var{value}.
@end table
@item use-cache-for-signing
See Assuan command @code{PKSIGN}.
@item allow-pinentry-notify
This does not need any value. It is used to enable the
PINENTRY_LAUNCHED inquiry.
@item pinentry-mode
This option is used to change the operation mode of the pinentry. The
following values are defined:
@table @code
@item ask
This is the default mode which pops up a pinentry as needed.
@item cancel
Instead of popping up a pinentry, return the error code
@code{GPG_ERR_CANCELED}.
@item error
Instead of popping up a pinentry, return the error code
@code{GPG_ERR_NO_PIN_ENTRY}.
@item loopback
Use a loopback pinentry. This fakes a pinentry by using inquiries
back to the caller to ask for a passphrase. This option may only be
set if the agent has been configured for that.
To disable this feature use @ref{option --no-allow-loopback-pinentry}.
@end table
@item cache-ttl-opt-preset
This option sets the cache TTL for new entries created by GENKEY and
PASSWD commands when using the @option{--preset} option. It is not
used a default value is used.
@item s2k-count
Instead of using the standard S2K count (which is computed on the
fly), the given S2K count is used for new keys or when changing the
passphrase of a key. Values below 65536 are considered to be 0. This
option is valid for the entire session or until reset to 0. This
option is useful if the key is later used on boxes which are either
much slower or faster than the actual box.
@item pretend-request-origin
This option switches the connection into a restricted mode which
handles all further commands in the same way as they would be handled
when originating from the extra or browser socket. Note that this
option is not available in the restricted mode. Valid values for this
option are:
@table @code
@item none
@itemx local
This is a NOP and leaves the connection in the standard way.
@item remote
Pretend to come from a remote origin in the same way as connections
from the @option{--extra-socket}.
@item browser
Pretend to come from a local web browser in the same way as connections
from the @option{--browser-socket}.
@end table
@end table
@mansect see also
@ifset isman
@command{@gpgname}(1),
@command{gpgsm}(1),
@command{gpgconf}(1),
@command{gpg-connect-agent}(1),
@command{scdaemon}(1)
@end ifset
@include see-also-note.texi

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