blog/source/_posts/2026-01-11.md

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GnuPG 2.5 for Windows is now 64-bit only	2026-01-11

After updating GnuPG to 2.5.16 using Chocolatey, I wasn't able to sign commit in WSL with pinentry error. The "$HOME/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf" was previously configured with pinentry-program "/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/gnupg/bin/pinentry-basic.exe" which is now an invalid path. I updated it to:

pinentry-program "/mnt/c/Program Files/GnuPG/bin/pinentry-basic.exe"

Then run systemctl --user restart gpg-agent.service.

If Git and GnuPG are used in Windows, the gpg config in "$HOME\.gitconfig" should be updated to:

[gpg]
  program = C:\\Program Files\\GnuPG\\bin\\gpg.exe