From wk at gnupg.org Thu Jan 25 17:26:55 2024 From: wk at gnupg.org (Werner Koch) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 17:26:55 +0100 Subject: [Announce] GnuPG 2.4.4 released Message-ID: <87le8didkg.fsf@jacob.g10code.de> Hello! We are pleased to announce the availability of a new stable GnuPG release: version 2.4.4. This version fixes a couple of bugs, comes with some new features. A smartcard related security bug is also fixed and a tool to check for this flaw is provided. See below for details. What is GnuPG ============= The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG, GPG) is a complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP and S/MIME standards. GnuPG allows to encrypt and sign data and communication, features a versatile key management system as well as access modules for public key directories. GnuPG itself is a command line tool with features for easy integration with other applications. The separate library GPGME provides a uniform API to use the GnuPG engine by software written in common programming languages. A wealth of frontend applications and libraries making use of GnuPG are available. As an universal crypto engine GnuPG provides support for S/MIME and Secure Shell in addition to OpenPGP. GnuPG is Free Software (meaning that it respects your freedom). It can be freely used, modified and distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Noteworthy changes in version 2.4.4 =================================== * gpg: Do not keep an unprotected smartcard backup key on disk. See https://gnupg.org/blog/20240125-smartcard-backup-key.html for a security advisory. [T6944] * gpg: Allow to specify seconds since Epoch beyond 2038 on 32-bit platforms. [T6736] * gpg: Fix expiration time when Creation-Date is specified. [T5252] * gpg: Add support for Subkey-Expire-Date. [rG96b69c1866] * gpg: Add option --with-v5-fingerprint. [T6705] * gpg: Add sub-option ignore-attributes to --import-options. [rGd4976e35d2] * gpg: Add --list-filter properties sig_expires/sig_expires_d. [rGbf662d0f93af] * gpg: Fix validity of re-imported keys. [T6399] * gpg: Report BEGIN_ status before examining the input. [T6481] * gpg: Don't try to compress a read-only keybox. [T6811] * gpg: Choose key from inserted card over a non-inserted card. [T6831] * gpg: Allow to create revocations even with non-compliant algos. [T6929] * gpg: Fix regression in the Revoker keyword of the parameter file. [T6923] * gpg: Improve error message for expired default keys. [T4704] * gpgsm: Add --always-trust feature. [T6559] * gpgsm: Support ECC certificates in de-vs mode. [T6802] * gpgsm: Major rewrite of the PKCS#12 parser. [T6536] * gpgsm: No not show the pkcs#12 passphrase in debug output. [T6654] * keyboxd: Timeout on failure to get the database lock. [T6838] * agent: Update the key stubs only if really modified. [T6829] * scd: Add support for certain Starcos 3.2 cards. [rG5304c9b080] * scd: Add support for CardOS 5.4 cards. [rG812f988059] * scd: Add support for D-Trust 4.1/4.4 cards. [rG0b85a9ac09] * scd: Add support for Smartcafe Expert 7.0 cards. [T6919] * scd: Add a length check for a new PIN. [T6843] * tpm: Fix keytotpm handling in the agent. [rG9909f622f6] * tpm: Fixes for the TPM test suite. [T6052] * dirmngr: Avoid starting a second instance on Windows via GPGME based launching. [T6833] * dirmngr: New option --ignore-crl-extensions. [T6545] * dirmngr: Support config value "none" to disable the default keyserver. [T6708] * dirmngr: Implement automatic proxy detection on Windows. [T5768] * dirmngr: Fix handling of the HTTP Content-Length. [rGa5e33618f4] * dirmngr: Add code to support proxy authentication using the Negotiation method on Windows. [T6719] * gpgconf: Add commands --lock and --unlock. [rG93b5ba38dc] * gpgconf: Add keyword socketdir to gpgconf.ctl. [rG239c1fdc28] * gpgconf: Adjust the -X command for the new VERSION file format. [T6918] * wkd: Use export-clean for gpg-wks-client's --mirror and --create commands. [rG2c7f7a5a278c] * wkd: Make --add-revocs the default in gpg-wks-client. New option --no-add-revocs. [rG10c937ee68] * Remove duplicated backslashes when setting the homedir. [T6833] * Ignore attempts to remove the /dev/null device. [T6556] * Improve advisory file lock retry strategy. [T3380] * Improve the speedo build system for Unix. [T6710] Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T6578 Getting the Software ==================== Please follow the instructions found at or read on: GnuPG may be downloaded from one of the GnuPG mirror sites or direct from its primary FTP server. The list of mirrors can be found at . Note that GnuPG is not available at ftp.gnu.org. The GnuPG source code compressed using BZIP2 and its OpenPGP signature are available here: https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.4.4.tar.bz2 (7701k) https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.4.4.tar.bz2.sig An installer for Windows without any graphical frontend except for a very minimal Pinentry tool is available here: https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/binary/gnupg-w32-2.4.4_20240125.exe (5407k) https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/binary/gnupg-w32-2.4.4_20240125.exe.sig The source used to build this Windows installer can be found in the same directory with a ".tar.xz" suffix. A new release of the full featured Gpg4win installer including this version of GnuPG is available here: https://files.gpg4win.org/gpg4win-4.3.0.exe (34M) https://files.gpg4win.org/gpg4win-4.3.0.exe.sig https://files.gpg4win.org/gpg4win-4.3.0.tar.xz (219M) https://files.gpg4win.org/gpg4win-4.3.0.tar.xz.sig Checking the Integrity ====================== In order to check that the version of GnuPG which you are going to install is an original and unmodified one, you can do it in one of the following ways: * If you already have a version of GnuPG installed, you can simply verify the supplied signature. For example to verify the signature of the file gnupg-2.4.4.tar.bz2 you would use this command: gpg --verify gnupg-2.4.4.tar.bz2.sig gnupg-2.4.4.tar.bz2 This checks whether the signature file matches the source file. You should see a message indicating that the signature is good and made by one or more of the release signing keys. Make sure that this is a valid key, either by matching the shown fingerprint against a trustworthy list of valid release signing keys or by checking that the key has been signed by trustworthy other keys. See the end of this mail for information on the signing keys. * If you are not able to use an existing version of GnuPG, you have to verify the SHA-1 checksum. On Unix systems the command to do this is either "sha1sum" or "shasum". Assuming you downloaded the file gnupg-2.4.4.tar.bz2, you run the command like this: sha1sum gnupg-2.4.4.tar.bz2 and check that the output matches the next line: 228b3984325fdeebc5e3f2d165c6419a5ebc28de gnupg-2.4.4.tar.bz2 1be67fe7a98c313d3767554cd48517735d20b7b9 gnupg-w32-2.4.4_20240125.tar.xz 9773a6baae99353aa63d08dba6e643cbecc75de5 gnupg-w32-2.4.4_20240125.exe 6e8ac03208caf76d6e487f8554f2bd607a1b9192 gpg4win-4.3.0.exe Internationalization ==================== This version of GnuPG has support for 26 languages with Chinese (traditional and simplified), Czech, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Turkish, and Ukrainian being almost completely translated. Documentation and Support ========================= The file gnupg.info has the complete reference manual of the system. Separate man pages are included as well but they miss some of the details available only in the manual. The manual is also available online at https://gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/ or can be downloaded as PDF at https://gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg.pdf You may also want to search the GnuPG mailing list archives or ask on the gnupg-users mailing list for advise on how to solve problems. Most of the new features are around for several years and thus enough public experience is available. https://wiki.gnupg.org has user contributed information around GnuPG and relate software. In case of build problems specific to this release please first check https://dev.gnupg.org/T6578 for updated information. Please consult the archive of the gnupg-users mailing list before reporting a bug: https://gnupg.org/documentation/mailing-lists.html. We suggest to send bug reports for a new release to this list in favor of filing a bug at https://bugs.gnupg.org. If you need commercial support go to https://gnupg.com or https://gnupg.org/service.html. If you are a developer and you need a certain feature for your project, please do not hesitate to bring it to the gnupg-devel mailing list for discussion. Thanks ====== Since 2001 maintenance and development of GnuPG is done by g10 Code GmbH and has mostly been financed by donations. Several full-time employed developers and contractors are working exclusively on GnuPG and closely related software like Libgcrypt, GPGME, Kleopatra and Gpg4win. Fortunately, and this is still not common with free software, we have established a way of financing the development while keeping all our software free and freely available for everyone. Our model is similar to the way RedHat manages RHEL and Fedora: Except for the actual binary of the MSI installer for Windows and client specific configuration files, all the software is available under the GNU GPL and other Open Source licenses. Thus customers may even build and distribute their own version of the software as long as they do not use our trademarks GnuPG Desktop? or GnuPG VS-Desktop?. We like to thank all the nice people who are helping the GnuPG project, be it testing, coding, translating, suggesting, auditing, administering the servers, spreading the word, answering questions on the mailing lists, or helped with donations. *Thank you all* Your GnuPG hackers p.s. This is an announcement only mailing list. Please send replies only to the gnupg-users at gnupg.org mailing list. List of Release Signing Keys: To guarantee that a downloaded GnuPG version has not been tampered by malicious entities we provide signature files for all tarballs and binary versions. The keys are also signed by the long term keys of their respective owners. Current releases are signed by one or more of these four keys: rsa3072 2017-03-17 [expires: 2027-03-15] 5B80 C575 4298 F0CB 55D8 ED6A BCEF 7E29 4B09 2E28 Andre Heinecke (Release Signing Key) ed25519 2020-08-24 [expires: 2030-06-30] 6DAA 6E64 A76D 2840 571B 4902 5288 97B8 2640 3ADA Werner Koch (dist signing 2020) ed25519 2021-05-19 [expires: 2027-04-04] AC8E 115B F73E 2D8D 47FA 9908 E98E 9B2D 19C6 C8BD Niibe Yutaka (GnuPG Release Key) brainpoolP256r1 2021-10-15 [expires: 2029-12-31] 02F3 8DFF 731F F97C B039 A1DA 549E 695E 905B A208 GnuPG.com (Release Signing Key 2021) The keys are available at https://gnupg.org/signature_key.html and in any recently released GnuPG tarball in the file g10/distsigkey.gpg . Note that this mail has been signed by a different key. -- Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say. - Edward Snowden -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: openpgp-digital-signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 247 bytes Desc: not available URL: From wk at gnupg.org Tue Mar 12 09:44:07 2024 From: wk at gnupg.org (Werner Koch) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 09:44:07 +0100 Subject: [Announce] GnuPG 2.4.5 released Message-ID: <87edcfon54.fsf@jacob.g10code.de> Hello! We are pleased to announce the availability of a new stable GnuPG release: version 2.4.5. This version fixes a couple of bugs and comes with some new features. What is GnuPG ============= The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG, GPG) is a complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP and S/MIME standards. GnuPG allows to encrypt and sign data and communication, features a versatile key management system as well as access modules for public key directories. GnuPG itself is a command line tool with features for easy integration with other applications. The separate library GPGME provides a uniform API to use the GnuPG engine by software written in common programming languages. A wealth of frontend applications and libraries making use of GnuPG are available. As an universal crypto engine GnuPG provides support for S/MIME and Secure Shell in addition to OpenPGP. GnuPG is Free Software (meaning that it respects your freedom). It can be freely used, modified and distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Noteworthy changes in version 2.4.5 =================================== * gpg,gpgv: New option --assert-pubkey-algo. [T6946] * gpg: Emit status lines for errors in the compression layer. [T6977] * gpg: Fix invocation with --trusted-keys and --no-options. [T7025] * gpgsm: Allow for a longer salt in PKCS#12 files. [T6757] * gpgtar: Make --status-fd=2 work on Windows. [T6961] * scd: Support for the ACR-122U NFC reader. [rG1682ca9f01] * scd: Suport D-TRUST ECC cards. [T7000,T7001] * scd: Allow auto detaching of kernel drivers; can be disabled with the new compatibility-flag ccid-no-auto-detach. [rGa1ea3b13e0] * scd: Allow setting a PIN length of 6 also with a reset code for openpgp cards. [T6843] * agent: Allow GET_PASSPHRASE in restricted mode. [rGadf4db6e20] * dirmngr: Trust system's root CAs for checking CRL issuers. [T6963] * dirmngr: Fix regression in 2.4.4 in fetching keys via hkps. [T6997] * gpg-wks-client: Make option --mirror work properly w/o specifying domains. [rG37cc255e49] * g13,gpg-wks-client: Allow command style options as in "g13 mount foo". [rGa09157ccb2] * Allow tilde expansion for the foo-program options. [T7017] * Make the getswdb.sh tool usable outside the GnuPG tree. Release-info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T6960 Getting the Software ==================== Please follow the instructions found at or read on: GnuPG may be downloaded from one of the GnuPG mirror sites or direct from its primary FTP server. The list of mirrors can be found at . Note that GnuPG is not available at ftp.gnu.org. The GnuPG source code compressed using BZIP2 and its OpenPGP signature are available here: https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.4.5.tar.bz2 (7704k) https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.4.5.tar.bz2.sig A new release of the Windows version in the form of the full featured Gpg4win installer including this version of GnuPG is available here: https://files.gpg4win.org/gpg4win-4.3.1.exe (34M) https://files.gpg4win.org/gpg4win-4.3.1.exe.sig and its source code is https://files.gpg4win.org/gpg4win-4.3.1.tar.xz (219M) https://files.gpg4win.org/gpg4win-4.3.1.tar.xz.sig Checking the Integrity ====================== In order to check that the version of GnuPG which you are going to install is an original and unmodified one, you can do it in one of the following ways: * If you already have a version of GnuPG installed, you can simply verify the supplied signature. For example to verify the signature of the file gnupg-2.4.5.tar.bz2 you would use this command: gpg --verify gnupg-2.4.5.tar.bz2.sig gnupg-2.4.5.tar.bz2 This checks whether the signature file matches the source file. You should see a message indicating that the signature is good and made by one or more of the release signing keys. Make sure that this is a valid key, either by matching the shown fingerprint against a trustworthy list of valid release signing keys or by checking that the key has been signed by trustworthy other keys. See the end of this mail for information on the signing keys. * If you are not able to use an existing version of GnuPG, you have to verify the SHA-1 checksum. On Unix systems the command to do this is either "sha1sum" or "shasum". Assuming you downloaded the file gnupg-2.4.5.tar.bz2, you run the command like this: sha1sum gnupg-2.4.5.tar.bz2 and check that the output matches the next line: ae0935ead29a2dfa34d6b48d70808652bc3ca73b gnupg-2.4.5.tar.bz2 7c5fa919c2eb90194e844de027a36e87c7be8a80 gpg4win-4.3.1.exe Internationalization ==================== This version of GnuPG has support for 26 languages with Chinese (traditional and simplified), Czech, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Turkish, and Ukrainian being almost completely translated. Documentation and Support ========================= The file gnupg.info has the complete reference manual of the system. Separate man pages are included as well but they miss some of the details available only in the manual. The manual is also available online at https://gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/ or can be downloaded as PDF at https://gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg.pdf You may also want to search the GnuPG mailing list archives or ask on the gnupg-users mailing list for advise on how to solve problems. Most of the new features are around for several years and thus enough public experience is available. https://wiki.gnupg.org has user contributed information around GnuPG and relate software. In case of build problems specific to this release please first check https://dev.gnupg.org/T6960 for updated information. Please consult the archive of the gnupg-users mailing list before reporting a bug: https://gnupg.org/documentation/mailing-lists.html. We suggest to send bug reports for a new release to this list in favor of filing a bug at https://bugs.gnupg.org. If you need commercial support go to https://gnupg.com or https://gnupg.org/service.html. If you are a developer and you need a certain feature for your project, please do not hesitate to bring it to the gnupg-devel mailing list for discussion. Thanks ====== Since 2001 maintenance and development of GnuPG is done by g10 Code GmbH and has mostly been financed by donations. Several full-time employed developers and contractors are working exclusively on GnuPG and closely related software like Libgcrypt, GPGME, Kleopatra and Gpg4win. Fortunately, and this is still not common with free software, we have established a way of financing the development while keeping all our software free and freely available for everyone. Our model is similar to the way RedHat manages RHEL and Fedora: Except for the actual binary of the MSI installer for Windows and client specific configuration files, all the software is available under the GNU GPL and other Open Source licenses. Thus customers may even build and distribute their own version of the software as long as they do not use our trademarks GnuPG Desktop? or GnuPG VS-Desktop?. We like to thank all the nice people who are helping the GnuPG project, be it testing, coding, translating, suggesting, auditing, administering the servers, spreading the word, answering questions on the mailing lists, or helped with donations. *Thank you all* Your GnuPG hackers p.s. This is an announcement only mailing list. Please send replies only to the gnupg-users at gnupg.org mailing list. List of Release Signing Keys: To guarantee that a downloaded GnuPG version has not been tampered by malicious entities we provide signature files for all tarballs and binary versions. The keys are also signed by the long term keys of their respective owners. Current releases are signed by one or more of these four keys: rsa3072 2017-03-17 [expires: 2027-03-15] 5B80 C575 4298 F0CB 55D8 ED6A BCEF 7E29 4B09 2E28 Andre Heinecke (Release Signing Key) ed25519 2020-08-24 [expires: 2030-06-30] 6DAA 6E64 A76D 2840 571B 4902 5288 97B8 2640 3ADA Werner Koch (dist signing 2020) ed25519 2021-05-19 [expires: 2027-04-04] AC8E 115B F73E 2D8D 47FA 9908 E98E 9B2D 19C6 C8BD Niibe Yutaka (GnuPG Release Key) brainpoolP256r1 2021-10-15 [expires: 2029-12-31] 02F3 8DFF 731F F97C B039 A1DA 549E 695E 905B A208 GnuPG.com (Release Signing Key 2021) The keys are available at https://gnupg.org/signature_key.html and in any recently released GnuPG tarball in the file g10/distsigkey.gpg . 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