This is a staging area for further refinement of pinentry.el, until it gets included in Emacs proper or ELPA. See the discussion on the GnuPG mailing list: https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2015-May/029875.html https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2015-June/029915.html