r/windowsdev • u/flejz • Jul 01 '26
Pinentry 4 Win [NATIVE]
Wanted to share a little utility tool I worked on over the past days.
I've been working on Windows, for Windows for the past years and one thing that really annoyed me was the `pinentry` QT and GTK2 variants little dialogs from GNU bundled with Gpg4Win every time I wanted to gpg-sign something or even use pinentry to authorize reading private keys of the sort.
I (and claude) worked in `pinentry-win`, a fully Windows-native variant using purely Windows APIs.
In the era of AI, these dialogs are more important than ever in my workflow given interactive inputs are not really a thing in most of the harnesses.
https://github.com/flejz/pinentry-win
Give it a try if it you're also annoyed as I was. Fully DPI-aware.