gpgsm
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gpgsm is the GNU Privacy Guard component that handles S/MIME public key cryptography, including X.509 certificate management and related operations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| gpgsm canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2792460 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: gpgsm Context triple: [GNU Privacy Guard, hasComponent, gpgsm]
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A.
PGP
PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is an encryption program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication, most notably for securing emails and files.
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B.
GNU Privacy Guard
GNU Privacy Guard is a free, open-source implementation of the OpenPGP standard used for encrypting and signing data and communications.
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C.
ElGamal
ElGamal is a public-key cryptosystem based on the discrete logarithm problem, widely used for secure encryption and digital signatures in various cryptographic protocols.
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D.
S/MIME
S/MIME is a widely used standard for secure email that provides encryption and digital signatures using public key cryptography.
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E.
SECG
SECG (Standards for Efficient Cryptography Group) is an industry consortium that develops and promotes standards for efficient public-key cryptography, particularly elliptic curve cryptography.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: gpgsm Target entity description: gpgsm is the GNU Privacy Guard component that handles S/MIME public key cryptography, including X.509 certificate management and related operations.
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A.
PGP
PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is an encryption program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication, most notably for securing emails and files.
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B.
GNU Privacy Guard
GNU Privacy Guard is a free, open-source implementation of the OpenPGP standard used for encrypting and signing data and communications.
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C.
ElGamal
ElGamal is a public-key cryptosystem based on the discrete logarithm problem, widely used for secure encryption and digital signatures in various cryptographic protocols.
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D.
S/MIME
S/MIME is a widely used standard for secure email that provides encryption and digital signatures using public key cryptography.
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E.
SECG
SECG (Standards for Efficient Cryptography Group) is an industry consortium that develops and promotes standards for efficient public-key cryptography, particularly elliptic curve cryptography.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
command-line program
ⓘ
cryptographic software ⓘ software component ⓘ |
| belongsToSuite |
GnuPG 2.x
ⓘ
linked to:
GNU Privacy Guard
|
| category |
email encryption software
ⓘ
public-key cryptography software ⓘ |
| configurationFile | gpgsm.conf ⓘ |
| developer |
Free Software Foundation
ⓘ
GnuPG project ⓘ
linked to:
GNU Privacy Guard
|
| implements | S/MIME ⓘ |
| invocationName | gpgsm ⓘ |
| license | GNU General Public License ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
GNU/Linux
ⓘ
Microsoft Windows ⓘ
linked to:
Windows
Unix-like systems ⓘ |
| partOf |
GnuPG
ⓘ
linked to:
GNU Privacy Guard
|
| primaryFunction |
X.509 certificate management
ⓘ
decrypting data ⓘ encrypting data ⓘ handling S/MIME public key cryptography ⓘ managing certificate chains ⓘ managing certificate revocation lists ⓘ signing data ⓘ verifying signatures ⓘ |
| programmingLanguage | C ⓘ |
| storesDataIn | GnuPG home directory ⓘ |
| supportsFormat |
CMS encrypted data
ⓘ
PKCS #12 key containers ⓘ X.509 certificates ⓘ |
| supportsKeyStorage |
certificate chains
ⓘ
private keys ⓘ public keys ⓘ |
| supportsOperation |
CRL management
ⓘ
S/MIME message encryption ⓘ S/MIME message signing ⓘ certificate deletion ⓘ certificate export ⓘ certificate import ⓘ certificate listing ⓘ certificate trust management ⓘ key generation for X.509 certificates ⓘ |
| supportsProtocol | OpenPGP card via S/MIME-related operations ⓘ |
| supportsStandard |
CMS
ⓘ
PKCS #7 ⓘ S/MIME ⓘ X.509 ⓘ
linked to:
X.509 certificates
|
| usesComponent |
GPG Agent
ⓘ
linked to:
gpg-agent
dirmngr ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: gpgsm Description of subject: gpgsm is the GNU Privacy Guard component that handles S/MIME public key cryptography, including X.509 certificate management and related operations.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.