Installing gpg on windows

As of this writing 1. Run the installer. Click OK until you're out of the System dialog box. In order for this to take effect you must close any open command windows and start a new one. If gnupg gives you this: gpg GnuPG 1.

This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. I can give detailed instructions upon request, but for now- this page explains how to compile most linux programs under Cygwin, and this page provides instructions on downloading the source code.

The information below is now obsolete, since as of today the current Cygwin gnupg2 package version is at 2. Unfortunately the Cygwin provided packages for GnuPG is way outdated and still using the deprecated gnupg1. This is indeed sad as everything else seem to work great. So you might think to download the Windows native Gpg4win, but that is a mistake. Also that package is outdated as of with the latest release of 2. So what to do? Install it.

GnuPG Bugs are tracked here. So to see the new version you have to give the full path. All good! What I need to do is to automate singing such that I don't need to enter the password every single time, but rather only the first time in a given period of time. Note also that some of them apply security patches on top of the standard versions but keep the original version number. We announce the end-of-life date for a current stable version at the time a new stable version is released.

We maintain old branches for at least two years. For GnuPG 2. For most other packages we don't maintain branches and thus there is no end-of-life; always use the latest version. Remarks: Pinentry is a collection of passphrase entry dialogs which is required for almost all usages of GnuPG.

GnuPG 1. This branch has no dependencies on the above listed libraries or the Pinentry. However, it lacks many modern features and will receive only important updates.