The GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA) is a graphical user interface for the GnuPG (GNU Privacy Guard).

GPA utilizes GTK+ (the GIMP Tool Kit) and compiles for various platforms. You can have a look at some screenshots . You can learn more about GPA icons, as well.

GPA is available at the GnuPG FTP server and its mirrors.

The current stable version is 0.11.1 which was released on 2026-02-12 from the master branch. See the download section for the latest tarball.

• Remove unused trust_item stuff to make it build with gpgme 2.x.
• Fix a crash due to bad marshaling. See https://bugs.gentoo.org/957196.

Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T7449

• Ported to GTK 3.
• See the ChangeLog or better https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gpa.git for a list of changes over the last 6 years.

Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T7449

• Added key manager context menu items to copy the key fingerprint and the secret key to the clipboard.
• Added "Details" buttons to many error popups to show raw diagnostic output from gpg.
• Changed the "Retrieve Key" dialog to first try the Web Key Directory if a mail address is given. Only if this lookup fails the keyservers are searched.
• Added a user-ID notebook page to show per user-ID info.
• Made location of locale dir under Windows more flexible.
• Fixed crash on filename conversion error. [#2185]
• Fixed listing of key algos in the subkey windows. [#3405]
• Removed lazy loading of the secret keyring. [#3748]

• Added basic support for TOFU information.
• Removed key-ID from some listings in favor of using the fingerprint.
• Fixed deletion of X.509 keys.
• Allow for saving to an alternate file name if the file already exists.
• Fixed several problems with key edit functions.
• Fixed drag-and-drop.