Unsafe configuration of the pinentry program

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Tue Dec 30 15:49:37 CET 2025


On Tue, 30 Dec 2025 14:55, Marius Spix said:

> directory can easily compromise gpg-agent by overriding the key
> pinentry-program in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf

This is anyway TILT - GAME OVER.  There are hundereds of ways to
compromise a system if you have write access to the configuration files.

Thanks for asking.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner



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