Reported.

You may.. Comments were relevant. Bye.

FWIW, the GTK and QT pinentries do have a qualitybar. However is is only enabled:

In T4809#131931, @werner wrote:

BTW, the qualitybar is not shown by default, only if you configure sme of the extra password checks. We may even remove it completely because it leads to wrong assumption on why a passphrase is required.

@Rycky_Tigg cases 1, 2, and 3 that you document here each show the behavior that i would expect from pinentry-gnome3, given the definition of its Assuan-based API and its use of gcr-prompter. (i'm assuming that in case 3 the user just waited longer than the allowed timeout)

"more specific about what you think is wrong"; From https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412569 copied)/pasted:

BTW, the qualitybar is not shown by default, only if you configure sme of the extra password checks. We may even remove it completely because it leads to wrong assumption on why a passphrase is required.

pinentry-gnome uses gcr's gcr_prompt_set_password_new to prompt for a new password, and ignores the SETQUALITYBAR assuan command.

It seems that gnome-keyring-daemon has some incompatible changes which breaks that version of pinentry-gnome. Or GKR has not been setup properly. I'd suggest to use pinentry-gtk until folks with knowledge about Gnome folks have figured out what is going wrong.

Hey. As reference– Complete set of features while run in Windows.

Please describe which features are missing.

I believe the problem was fixed in the master of pinentry with newer gpg-error-config and libassuan-config which support cross build better.

Confirmed that the support of --no-global-grab doesn't work well.

Thanks for the follow-up Werner.

Then better do not use a curses pinentry. It can't guarantee that another process changes the tty properties. For security reasons it is better to run the pinentry in a different window (ie. a GUI based pinentry).

It is not just about being annoying but for security reasons. It would be too easy for other applications *think webbrowser or Acrobat) to take a screenshot and pop up a modified version of that screenshot with data entries to act as a MitM.

The feature has been implemented for the -qt, -tqt, -gtk, and -curses pinentries.

reviewing this, i think the situation is:

I think the problem is the following:

False alarm. Turns out pinentry-gtk-2.exe is also not working all the time.

@bb - I've tried this, this doesn't appear to work. It looks like the Gtk2 pinentry doesn't grab focus when doing authentication, either. Interestingly enough, it also doesn't show in the taskbar.