diff --git a/SPECS/dirmngr/dirmngr.signatures.json b/SPECS/dirmngr/dirmngr.signatures.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..253cb6ed082
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SPECS/dirmngr/dirmngr.signatures.json
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+  "Signatures": {
+    "gnupg-2.4.9.tar.bz2": "dd17ab2e9a04fd79d39d853f599cbc852062ddb9ab52a4ddeb4176fd8b302964"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/SPECS/dirmngr/dirmngr.spec b/SPECS/dirmngr/dirmngr.spec
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..057306defe6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SPECS/dirmngr/dirmngr.spec
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+Summary:        Network daemon for managing OpenPGP and X.509 keyservers from GnuPG
+Name:           dirmngr
+Version:        2.4.9
+Release:        2%{?dist}
+License:        BSD and CC0 and GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+
+Vendor:         Microsoft Corporation
+Distribution:   Azure Linux
+Group:          Applications/Cryptography
+URL:            https://gnupg.org/index.html
+# This spec is built from the GnuPG source tarball but ships ONLY the dirmngr
+# daemon and its helpers. The companion gnupg2 package owns everything else
+# from the same tarball.
+#
+# Why a separate spec instead of a gnupg2 subpackage:
+#   * dirmngr needs a TLS backend (gnutls) to talk to HKPS/HTTPS keyservers
+#     and gpg silently drops dirmngr from the install set when one is not
+#     present. Adding `BuildRequires: gnutls-devel` to gnupg2.spec is not an
+#     option because gnupg2 is part of the bootstrap toolchain
+#     (see toolkit/scripts/toolchain/build_official_toolchain_rpms.sh) and
+#     pulling gnutls (plus nettle, gmp, p11-kit, ...) into bootstrap would
+#     cascade into a full toolchain regeneration on x86_64 and aarch64.
+#   * Building dirmngr out-of-toolchain in its own spec keeps the bootstrap
+#     untouched while restoring `gpg --recv-keys` from HKPS keyservers.
+#
+# Version and Release are kept in lockstep with gnupg2 via
+# toolkit/scripts/check_entangled_specs.py; bump them together when gnupg2
+# changes.
+#
+# NOTE: gnupg2.spec must NOT start linking against gnutls while this spec
+# exists, or both packages will try to own /usr/bin/dirmngr and conflict.
+# If that ever changes, retire this spec instead of keeping both.
+Source0:        https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-%{version}.tar.bz2
+
+BuildRequires:  zlib-devel
+BuildRequires:  bzip2-devel
+BuildRequires:  readline-devel
+BuildRequires:  npth-devel >= 1.2
+BuildRequires:  libassuan-devel >= 2.5.0
+BuildRequires:  libksba-devel >= 1.3.4
+BuildRequires:  libgcrypt-devel > 1.9.1
+BuildRequires:  libgpg-error-devel >= 1.48
+# TLS backend that lets dirmngr talk to HKPS/HTTPS keyservers. Without one,
+# gnupg's configure silently disables dirmngr.
+BuildRequires:  gnutls-devel
+# HKP/HTTP keyserver transport via libcurl.
+BuildRequires:  curl-devel
+# LDAP keyserver helper (/usr/libexec/dirmngr_ldap).
+BuildRequires:  openldap-devel
+
+Requires:       gnupg2 = %{version}-%{release}
+Requires:       libksba > 1.3.4
+Requires:       libgcrypt >= 1.9.1
+Requires:       libgpg-error >= 1.48
+Requires:       npth >= 1.2
+Requires:       libassuan >= 2.5.0
+
+Provides:       gnupg2-dirmngr = %{version}-%{release}
+
+%description
+GnuPG's dirmngr daemon takes care of accessing OpenPGP keyservers (HKP, HKPS),
+X.509 CRL/OCSP responders, and LDAP directories on behalf of gpg and gpgsm.
+It is required by `gpg --keyserver ... --recv-keys` and other keyserver
+operations.
+
+This package is built from the same GnuPG source tarball as the `gnupg2`
+package but ships only the dirmngr binary, the dirmngr-client utility, the
+dirmngr_ldap LDAP helper and their manual pages. Its Version and Release are
+kept in lockstep with `gnupg2`.
+
+%prep
+%autosetup -p1 -n gnupg-%{version}
+# The CVE-2026-24882 patch carried by SPECS/gnupg2/gnupg2.spec only touches
+# tpm2d/tpm2.c, which is unrelated to dirmngr and not shipped by this spec,
+# so it is intentionally not applied here.
+
+%build
+# Keep configure flags aligned with SPECS/gnupg2/gnupg2.spec so the produced
+# dirmngr matches the gnupg2 build it co-installs with. --enable-gpg-is-gpg2
+# and --disable-keyboxd are inherited from that spec for the same reasons.
+%configure \
+  --enable-gpg-is-gpg2 \
+  --disable-keyboxd
+%make_build
+
+%install
+ln -sf gpg2.1 doc/gpg.1
+ln -sf gpgv2.1 doc/gpgv.1
+
+%make_install
+
+# This spec is scoped to dirmngr only. Prune every file produced by the
+# upstream build that is already owned by the gnupg2 package, using a
+# whitelist of dirmngr-related names so the prune is resilient to upstream
+# adding or removing unrelated helpers in the future.
+find %{buildroot}%{_bindir} -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 \
+    ! -name 'dirmngr' ! -name 'dirmngr-client' -delete
+[ -d %{buildroot}%{_sbindir} ] && find %{buildroot}%{_sbindir} -mindepth 1 -delete
+find %{buildroot}%{_libexecdir} -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 \
+    ! -name 'dirmngr*' -delete
+rm -rf %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/gnupg
+rm -rf %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/locale
+rm -rf %{buildroot}%{_infodir}
+rm -rf %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/gnupg
+find %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man1 -mindepth 1 ! -name 'dirmngr*' -delete
+[ -d %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man7 ] && find %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man7 -mindepth 1 -delete
+find %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man8 -mindepth 1 ! -name 'dirmngr*' -delete
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%license COPYING COPYING.CC0 COPYING.GPL2 COPYING.LGPL3 COPYING.LGPL21 COPYING.other
+%{_bindir}/dirmngr
+%{_bindir}/dirmngr-client
+%{_libexecdir}/dirmngr_ldap
+%{_mandir}/man8/dirmngr.*
+%{_mandir}/man1/dirmngr-client.*
+
+%changelog
+* Wed Jun 10 2026 Muhammad Falak <mwani@microsoft.com> - 2.4.9-2
+- Initial Azure Linux 3.0 packaging of dirmngr as a standalone spec sharing
+  the gnupg source tree, restoring HTTPS keyserver functionality lost when
+  gnutls was dropped from the toolchain. Version and Release are entangled
+  with gnupg2 via check_entangled_specs.py, so the first release is 2 to
+  match the current gnupg2 Release.
+- Fixes ADO 62225284 / GH#3142.
diff --git a/toolkit/scripts/check_entangled_specs.py b/toolkit/scripts/check_entangled_specs.py
index ba63a555712..094924f245a 100755
--- a/toolkit/scripts/check_entangled_specs.py
+++ b/toolkit/scripts/check_entangled_specs.py
@@ -59,6 +59,10 @@
         "SPECS/cyrus-sasl/cyrus-sasl.spec",
         "SPECS/cyrus-sasl-bootstrap/cyrus-sasl-bootstrap.spec"
     ]),
+    frozenset([
+        "SPECS/gnupg2/gnupg2.spec",
+        "SPECS/dirmngr/dirmngr.spec"
+    ]),
     frozenset([
         "SPECS/shim-unsigned-x64/shim-unsigned-x64.spec",
         "SPECS/shim-unsigned-aarch64/shim-unsigned-aarch64.spec"