how to navigate with pinentry

Question

I was was using gpg --gen-key till I got to enter the passphrase where I get:

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Please enter Passphrase,                             │
│                                                      │
│ Passphrase: ________________________________________ │
│                                                      │
│       <OK>                            <Cancel>       │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

After some digging I found out this came from gpg-agent which in turn uses pinentry.

All I can do here is enter passphrase (which works fine) and press tab, which makes the blinking cursor disappear. But how to I select <ok> or <cancel> in pinentry?

gpg was installed on osx via brew

When I try CTL+C I get: gpg: signal Interrupt caught ... exiting but can still continue typing a passphrase.

Answer 1

With the cursor in the PIN entry area, pressing Enter will activate the “OK” button.

Pressing Tab will highlight the “OK” button and then the “Cancel” button; pressing Enter with a button hightlighted will activate that button.