Translations:GnuPG/50/en

A GPG agent is a separate application that GPG uses to cache the passphrase in a standard and secure way. It allows applications to use GPG concurrently: if the passphrase is entered while working in one application, the other application can work with GPG without reiterating the request for the passphrase to unlock the key — if the GPG Agent is configured to allow so, of course.