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@@ -495,7 +495,11 @@ user for a new passphrase and masking of the passphrase is turned off.
If passphrase formatting is enabled, then all non-breaking space characters
are stripped from the entered passphrase. Passphrase formatting is mostly
-useful in combination with passphrases generated with the GENPIN command.
+useful in combination with passphrases generated with the GENPIN
+feature of some Pinentries. Note that such a generated
+passphrase, if not modified by the user, skips all passphrase
+constraints checking because such constraints would actually weaken
+the generated passphrase.
@item --pinentry-program @var{filename}
@opindex pinentry-program