Architecture: any Platform: all Depends: gnupg-common (= ${Binary-Version}), libgcrypt.20 (>= 1.7.0), libgpg-error.0 (>= 1.24), libassuan.0 (>= 2.5.0), libnpth.0 (>= 1.2), Description: GNU Privacy Guard system - secret key management ${Common-Description} . "gpg-agent" is a daemon to manage secret (private) keys independently from any protocol. It is used as a backend for "gpg" and "gpgsm" as well as for a couple of other utilities.