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--daemon does not cause gpg-agent to run in the background.
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gpg-agent --daemon

starts the gpg-agent in the foreground on Windows 10.

OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Version 10.0.14393 Build 14393

> gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 2.1.22
libgcrypt 1.8.0
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu
This is free software: you are free to change and redis
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Home: C:/Users/user/AppData/Roaming/gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA, ECDH, ECDSA, EDDSA
Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES25
        CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256
Hash: SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2
> gpg-agent --version
gpg-agent (GnuPG) 2.1.22
libgcrypt 1.8.0
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu
This is free software: you are free to change and redis
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

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External Link
https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/binary/gnupg-w32-2.1.22_20170728.exe
Version
2.1.22

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rage13 created this task.Aug 7 2017, 6:54 PM
justus triaged this task as Wishlist priority.Aug 8 2017, 10:52 AM
justus added projects: gpgagent, Windows, gnupg (gpg22).
justus added a subscriber: justus.

That is correct, gpg-agent does not daemonize on Windows if --daemon is given, it is simply not implemented.

Note that it is usually not required to explicitly start the daemon, and if it is, it can be done using gpgconf --launch gpg-agent.

• werner closed this task as Resolved.Aug 8 2017, 11:06 AM
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In fact, on Windows you would need to have a system service. We did this in the past for the dirmngr but remove that feature due to possible security problems and problems during installation.

To start gpg-agent manually you do what Justus already explained:

gpgconf --launch gpg-agent

The only use case I can see for this is the putty support in gpg-agent.