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### 5.5 Unattended Usage

`gpgsm` is often used as a backend engine by other software. To help with this a machine interface has been defined to have an unambiguous way to do this. This is most likely used with the `--server` command but may also be used in the standard operation mode by using the `--status-fd` option.