Staring at some Process Monitor logs I noticed that dirmngr wastes 3-4 seconds trying to connect to localhost:9050 and localhost:9150 looking for tor. After adding no-use-tor to dirmngr.conf dirmngr starts reasonably fast.

In T7379#195089, @ikloecker wrote:

Kleopatra does now read the certificates from the card and import them itself instead of relying on gpgsm --learn-card.

since nothing was changed, that's a wontfix…

Remove the lines starting with ShowResultsAfter[...] in kleopatrarc

I have built the run-* test programs of gpgme for Windows. run-keylist --cms --secret takes about 23 seconds. 3.7 seconds are gpgme initialization/setup (gpgconf --list-dirs, gpgconf --list-components, gpg --version, gpgsm --version, gpgconf --version). Most time (2 x 6-8 s) is lost starting gpg-agent and dirmngr. (keyboxd is not enabled here.)

I would suggest to use something like "Kyber 768 + brainpool P 256" because parentheses might be interpreted tha this is an alias for Kyber,

commands with -v

Please always add -v t commands like "gpg --decrypt test.txt.gpg". To decide whether this is smartcard or gpg-agent releated, I need to see a log file form gpg-agent and scdaemon. The latter is more important. I would suggest "debug ipc,app,cardio"

That works using a gpgconf.ctl file side by side to gpgconf{,.exe}