From wk at gnupg.org Fri Jan 9 13:12:55 2009 From: wk at gnupg.org (Werner Koch) Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:12:55 +0100 Subject: [Announce] Signing key updated Message-ID: <87zli0ada0.fsf@wheatstone.g10code.de> Hi! The key used to sign GnuPG releases expired at the end of last year. The original plan was to create a new key using a 2048 bit RSA capable smartcard. However those smartcards will become generally available only in a few months months and I need to crank out new releases earlier. Thus I decided to keep on using the existing key for another years. The OpenPGP protocol allows to change the expiration date of a key and that is what I did. Please update the copy of your key, either from a keyserver or using the one below. Shalom-Salam, Werner pub 1024R/1CE0C630 2006-01-01 [expires: 2009-12-31] Key fingerprint = 7B96 D396 E647 1601 754B E4DB 53B6 20D0 1CE0 C630 uid Werner Koch (dist sig) -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) mI4EQ7f6xwEEANCZGXorXMkDKpNsRnf+ZhqHOPmDcEKPDkplcCL2PFACN7QaK4Re oWvZ4mqmVOL3ZXU51zFNI9aD3JAIToET2jr2hGYWFExdBf9eaYgBeXZGUOnbJl1V JDzWDGU6ZHNpwPiAAgYjpsoBgZCxbl7x0VtYukjc9vIkR/1GXGC4v9ohACCBVlCZ tCZXZXJuZXIgS29jaCAoZGlzdCBzaWcpIDxkZDlqbkBnbnUub3JnPoi8BBMBAgAm BQJDt/rIAhsDBQkFo5qABgsJCAcDAgQVAggDBBYCAwECHgECF4AACgkQU7Yg0Bzg xjB5owQAh0MO0kuQ7hM6AKj8YK4bRGapHBmeIniaer9Y6vwXgErfDUci7BUQTxXo FFTgKHHzBz39bzeStyQgTm5plGaOEJcJayIr07DaeBtcC/dMoVUJswybKMFtP7fU z05PRKjChvxrWzhe/Yn6BAmPF+6YxQo2W98rzq0THS5wKJjXmHyIRgQQEQIABgUC Q7gRQwAKCRBd4kmWWwNYopHmAJ92KI2MZ2P3+YxquJThye5KZo9AiQCeP7Nb1/1n YzQrav6CV0QLYTDbJOWIvAQTAQIAJgIbAwYLCQgHAwIEFQIIAwQWAgMBAh4BAheA BQJJZzlfBQkHhTItAAoJEFO2INAc4MYw66QEAKUlnH7ceUG3/8j83/9BRON0L7Jf OFwPx9UkcgxfiUEpN5dDpu+0BkLzX/F2FBt7vqeRbwxUBJIznGHEZ+MSVMoH56gA nepcmDVOab554LApgi6IMLz0niz1ASrWqZOow7QF6Wgn5ZVuQ/BzlH6xPmywEtQ7 38ugOh5IaH3ts/M5 =pSi0 -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Other locations of my keys are: gpg --fetch-key finger:wk at g10code.com gpg --fetch-key http://werner.eifelkommune.de/mykey.asc -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Auschnahme regelt ein Bundeschgesetz. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 205 bytes Desc: not available URL: From wk at gnupg.org Fri Jan 9 13:16:06 2009 From: wk at gnupg.org (Werner Koch) Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:16:06 +0100 Subject: [Announce] Libksba 1.0.5 released Message-ID: <87tz88ad4p.fsf@wheatstone.g10code.de> Hello! We are pleased to announce version 1.0.5 of Libksba. Libksba is an X.509 and CMS (PKCS#7) library. It is for example required to build the S/MIME part of GnuPG-2 (gpgsm). The only build requirement for Libksba itself is the libgpg-error package. There are no other dependencies; actual cryptographic operations need to be done by the user. Libksba is distributed under the GPLv3+. There are no user tools accompanying this software, thus it is mostly relevant to developers. This is a maintenance release. You may download the library and its OpenPGP signature from: ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libksba/libksba-1.0.5.tar.bz2 (555k) ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libksba/libksba-1.0.5.tar.bz2.sig As an alternative you may use a patch file to upgrade the previous version of the library: ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libksba/libksba-1.0.4-1.0.5.diff.bz2 (7k) or from any mirror of that server (http://www.gnupg.org/mirrors.html). SHA-1 checksums are: 2d5939d21f02142197158cd252b2725414a64b33 libksba-1.0.5.tar.bz2 46e4be795a04777be98e1f265773da845d6a28f8 libksba-1.0.4-1.0.5.diff.bz2 Noteworthy changes in version 1.0.5 (2009-01-09) ------------------------------------------------ * Minor bug fixes. Commercial support contracts for Libksba are available, and they help finance continued maintenance. g10 Code, a Duesseldorf based company owned and headed by Libksba's principal author, is currently funding its development. We are always looking for interesting development projects. See also http://www.gnupg.org/service.html . Happy hacking, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Auschnahme regelt ein Bundeschgesetz. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 205 bytes Desc: not available URL: From wk at gnupg.org Mon Jan 12 10:55:53 2009 From: wk at gnupg.org (Werner Koch) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:55:53 +0100 Subject: [Announce] GnuPG 2.0.10 released Message-ID: <87eiz897bq.fsf@wheatstone.g10code.de> Hello! We are pleased to announce the availability of a new stable GnuPG-2 release: Version 2.0.10. The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data, create digital signatures, help authenticating using Secure Shell and to provide a framework for public key cryptography. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the OpenPGP and S/MIME standards. GnuPG-2 has a different architecture than GnuPG-1 (e.g. 1.4.9) in that it splits up functionality into several modules. However, both versions may be installed alongside without any conflict. In fact, the gpg version from GnuPG-1 is able to make use of the gpg-agent as included in GnuPG-2 and allows for seamless passphrase caching. The advantage of GnuPG-1 is its smaller size and the lack of dependency on other modules at run and build time. We will keep maintaining GnuPG-1 versions because they are very useful for small systems and for server based applications requiring only OpenPGP support. GnuPG is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL version 3). GnuPG-2 works best on GNU/Linux or *BSD systems. What's New =========== * [gpg] New keyserver helper gpg2keys_kdns as generic DNS CERT lookup. Run with --help for a short description. Requires the ADNS library. * [gpg] New mechanisms "local" and "nodefault" for --auto-key-locate. Fixed a few problems with this option. * [gpg] New command --locate-keys. * [gpg] New options --with-sig-list and --with-sig-check. * [gpg] The option "-sat" is no longer an alias for --clearsign. * [gpg] The option --fixed-list-mode is now implicitly used and obsolete. * [gpg] New control statement %ask-passphrase for the unattended key generation. * [gpg] The algorithm to compute the SIG_ID status has been changed. * [gpgsm] Now uses AES by default. * [gpgsm] Made --output option work with --export-secret-key-p12. * [gpg-agent] Terminate process if the own listening socket is not anymore served by ourself. * [scdaemon] Made it more robust on W32. * [gpg-connect-agent] Accept commands given as command line arguments. * [w32] Initialized the socket subsystem for all keyserver helpers. * [w32] The sysconf directory has been moved from a subdirectory of the installation directory to %CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA%/GNU/etc/gnupg. * [w32] The gnupg2.nls directory is not anymore used. The standard locale directory is now used. * [w32] Fixed a race condition between gpg and gpgsm in the use of temporary file names. * The gpg-preset-passphrase mechanism works again. An arbitrary string may now be used for a custom cache ID. * Admin PINs are cached again (bug in 2.0.9). * Support for version 2 OpenPGP cards. * Libgcrypt 1.4 is now required. Getting the Software ==================== Please follow the instructions found at http://www.gnupg.org/download/ or read on: GnuPG 2.0.10 may be downloaded from one of the GnuPG mirror sites or direct from ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/ . The list of mirrors can be found at http://www.gnupg.org/mirrors.html . Note, that GnuPG is not available at ftp.gnu.org. On the FTP server and its mirrors you should find the following files in the gnupg/ directory: gnupg-2.0.10.tar.bz2 (3736k) gnupg-2.0.10.tar.bz2.sig GnuPG source compressed using BZIP2 and OpenPGP signature. gnupg-2.0.9-2.0.10.diff.bz2 (264k) A patch file to upgrade a 2.0.9 GnuPG source tree. This patch does not include updates of the language files. Note, that we don't distribute gzip compressed tarballs for GnuPG-2. 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 trusted version of GnuPG installed, you can simply check the supplied signature. For example to check the signature of the file gnupg-2.0.10.tar.bz2 you would use this command: gpg --verify gnupg-2.0.10.tar.bz2.sig This checks whether the signature file matches the source file. You should see a message indicating that the signature is good and made by that signing key. Make sure that you have the right key, either by checking the fingerprint of that key with other sources or by checking that the key has been signed by a trustworthy other key. Note, that you can retrieve the signing key using the command finger wk ,at' g10code.com or using a keyserver like gpg --recv-key 1CE0C630 The distribution key 1CE0C630 is signed by the well known key 5B0358A2. If you get an key expired message, you should retrieve a fresh copy as the expiration date might have been prolonged. NEVER USE A GNUPG VERSION YOU JUST DOWNLOADED TO CHECK THE INTEGRITY OF THE SOURCE - USE AN EXISTING GNUPG INSTALLATION! * If you are not able to use an old version of GnuPG, you have to verify the SHA-1 checksum. Assuming you downloaded the file gnupg-2.0.10.tar.bz2, you would run the sha1sum command like this: sha1sum gnupg-2.0.10.tar.bz2 and check that the output matches the first line from the following list: d25e41a8cc607334b707d13af819ceaa217800b5 gnupg-2.0.10.tar.bz2 2a375f4d6cb171f3358bce2b6b3a26ba208ab3ac gnupg-2.0.9-2.0.10.diff.bz2 Internationalization ==================== GnuPG comes with support for 27 languages. Due to a lot of new and changed strings many translations are not entirely complete. Jedi, Maxim Britov, Jaime Su?rez and Nilg?n Belma Bug?ner have been kind enough to go over their translations and thus the Chinese, German, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish translations are pretty much complete. Documentation ============= We are currently working on an installation guide to explain in more detail how to configure the new features. As of now the chapters on gpg-agent and gpgsm include brief information on how to set up the whole thing. Please watch the GnuPG website for updates of the documentation. In the meantime you may search the GnuPG mailing list archives or ask on the gnupg-users mailing lists for advise on how to solve problems. Many of the new features are around for several years and thus enough public knowledge is already available. KDE's KMail is the most prominent user of GnuPG-2. In fact it has been developed along with the KMail folks. Mutt users might want to use the configure option "--enable-gpgme" and "set use_crypt_gpgme" in ~/.muttrc to make use of GnuPG-2 to enable S/MIME in addition to a reworked OpenPGP support. The manual is also available online in HTML format at http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/ and in Portable Document Format at http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg.pdf . Support ======= Improving GnuPG is costly, but you can help! We are looking for organizations that find GnuPG useful and wish to contribute back. You can contribute by reporting bugs, improve the software, order extensions or support or more general by donating money to the Free Software movement (e.g. http://www.fsfeurope.org/help/donate.en.html). Commercial support contracts for GnuPG are available, and they help finance continued maintenance. g10 Code GmbH, a Duesseldorf based company owned and headed by GnuPG's principal author, is currently funding GnuPG development. We are always looking for interesting development projects. The GnuPG service directory is available at: http://www.gnupg.org/service.html Thanks ====== We have to thank all the people who helped with this release, be it testing, coding, translating, suggesting, auditing, administering the servers, spreading the word or answering questions on the mailing lists. Happy Hacking, The GnuPG Team (David, Marcus, Werner and all other contributors) -- Die Gedanken sind frei. 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This functionality has been in Libgcrypt since 1.3.0. * MD5 may now be used in non-enforced fips mode. * Fixed HMAC for SHA-384 and SHA-512 with keys longer than 64 bytes. * In fips mode, RSA keys are now generated using the X9.31 algorithm and DSA keys using the FIPS 186-2 algorithm. * The transient-key flag is now also supported for DSA key generation. DSA domain parameters may be given as well. Source code is hosted at the GnuPG FTP server and its mirrors as listed at http://www.gnupg.org/download/mirrors.html . On the primary server the source file and its digital signatures is: ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.4.4.tar.bz2 (1116k) ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.4.4.tar.bz2.sig This file is bzip2 compressed. A gzip compressed version is also available: ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.4.4.tar.gz (1387k) ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.4.4.tar.gz.sig Alternativley you may upgrade version 1.4.3 using this patch file: ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.4.3-1.4.4.diff.bz2 (90k) The SHA-1 checksums are: 6f156593ce0833856b59580a7d430d0a5153b324 libgcrypt-1.4.4.tar.gz 3987f0efcbb7048c136d5c859e88eee1763a14f6 libgcrypt-1.4.4.tar.bz2 51947f0753ac61af96e075fcb5a1d4a6305c284b libgcrypt-1.4.3-1.4.4.diff.bz2 For help on developing with Libgcrypt you should read the included manual and optional ask on the gcrypt-devel mailing list [1]. Improving Libgcrypt is costly, but you can help! We are looking for organizations that find Libgcrypt useful and wish to contribute back. You can contribute by reporting bugs, improve the software [2], order extensions or support or more general by donating money to the Free Software movement [3]. Commercial support contracts for Libgcrypt are available [4], and they help finance continued maintenance. g10 Code GmbH, a Duesseldorf based company, is currently funding Libgcrypt development. We are always looking for interesting development projects. Many thanks to all who contributed to Libgcrypt development, be it bug fixes, code, documentation, testing or helping users. Happy hacking, Werner [1] See http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/mailing-lists.html . [2] Note that copyright assignments to the FSF are required. [3] For example see http://donate.fsf.org . [4] See the service directory at http://www.gnupg.org/service.html . -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Auschnahme regelt ein Bundeschgesetz. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 205 bytes Desc: not available URL: From wk at gnupg.org Wed Feb 18 15:09:26 2009 From: wk at gnupg.org (Werner Koch) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:09:26 +0100 Subject: [Announce] Gpg4win 1.1.4 released Message-ID: <87hc2rq1k9.fsf@wheatstone.g10code.de> Hi! We are pleased to announce the availability of a new stable Gpg4win release: Version 1.1.4. This is a maintenance release; if you don't have any problems there is no need for an update. It mainly fixes problem using GnuPG on Windows Vista by updating to a newer version of the included GnuPG. About Gpg4win ------------- The Gpg4win project aims at updating the Gpg4win Windows installation package with GnuPG encryption tool, associated applications and documentation on a regular basis. Especially the documentation (handbooks "Novices", "Einsteiger" and "Durchblicker") are directly maintained as part of the gpg4win project. It is an international project. Due to the origin of the project the German language is fully supported. People helping with translations are very welcome! The main difference compared to all other similar approaches (mainly GnuPP, GnuPT, Windows Privacy Tools and GnuPG-Basics) is that the first thing developed was the Gpg4win-Builder. This builder allows to easily create new gpg4win.exe installers with updated components. The builder runs on any decent Unix system, preferable Debian GNU/Linux. Almost all products are automatically cross-compiled for integration into the installer. With this concept it is hoped to prevent quick aging of the installer package. This is due to easier updating and less dependency on single developers. Noteworthy changes in version 1.1.4 (2009-02-17) ------------------------------------------------ * Updated GnuPG to 1.4.9 to solve problems on Windows Vista. * Updated the optional GnuPG-2 components. * Included the small Paperkey and Scute utilities. * Included components are: GnuPG: 1.4.9 [*] GnuPG2: 2.0.10 [*] DirMngr: 1.0.3-svn310 [*] GPA: 0.8.0 [*] GPGol: 0.9.92 GPGee: 1.3.1 WinPT: 1.2.0 Claws-Mail: 3.0.0-rc2 Novices: 1.0.0 Einsteiger: 2.0.2 Durchblicker: 2.0.2 (Marked packages are updated since the last release) Incompatibilities ----------------- The Dirmngr, which is used by GnuPG-2, uses another location for its configuration files. It is not anymore below the installation directory put at the proper place for data files. This ensures that they will persist over updates and allows to use a network share for the program files. Gpg4win 1.1.4 deletes those old configuration files it knows about but keeps those not installed by Gpg4win. However, the left over files are not anymore used and need to be copied to the new location manually if this is desired. Given that GnuPG-2 and Dirmngr are not used by the other tools, we believe that this is not a hard problem. Current Work ------------ We are still working towards Gpg4win 2.0, featuring a completely new architecture. The currently available Beta version (available through http://www.gpg4win.org/download.html) is almost usable. However there are a couple of problems we need to solve before we are able to release a stable Gpg4win 2.0. Due to these problems we decided to release 1.1.4 as an update for 1.1.3 first. Using GPG via %PATH% -------------------- As of version 1.1.0, Gpg4win updates the PATH variable to include a new public directory containing the command line tools of Gpg4win. To avoid having a bunch of DLLs in the PATH a special wrapper is used to access these tools. With this release the wrapper should actually work and allows access to gpg, gpgsm and gpg-connect-agent from anywhere in the system without the need to know where Gpg4win has been installed. Developers of frontends making use of Gpg4win might want to avoid the use of these wrappers. A hidden option in the wrapper makes the actual used binary available. For example, running "gpg --version --version" will print the following to stdout if the wrapper is being used: gpgwrap (Gpg4win) 1.1.4 ;C:\Programme\GNU\GnuPG\gpg.exe gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.9 (Gpg4win 1.1.4) .... The string after the semicolon up to the end of the first line may be used for future invocations of gpg.exe. Installation ------------ For installation instructions, please visit http://www.gpg4win.org or read on. Developers who want to *build an installer* need to get the following files from http://wald.intevation.org/projects/gpg4win/ : gpg4win-1.1.4.tar.bz2 (4.3M) gpg4win-1.1.4.tar.bz2.sig The second file is a digital signature of the the first file. Either check that this signature is fine or compare with the checksums given below. (see also http://www.gnupg.org/download/integrity_check.html) The *ready to use installer* is available at: http://ftp.gpg4win.org/gpg4win-1.1.4.exe (9.6M) http://ftp.gpg4win.org/gpg4win-1.1.4.exe.sig Or using the ftp protocol at: ftp://ftp.gpg4win.org/gpg4win/gpg4win-1.1.4.exe (9.6M) ftp://ftp.gpg4win.org/gpg4win/gpg4win-1.1.4.exe.sig SHA1 and MD5 checksums for these files are given below. If you don't need the manuals or the GnuPG2 command line tools for S/MIME, you might alternatively download the "light" version of the installer: http://ftp.gpg4win.org/gpg4win-light-1.1.4.exe (5.9M) http://ftp.gpg4win.org/gpg4win-light-1.1.4.exe.sig or using FTP at: ftp://ftp.gpg4win.org/gpg4win/gpg4win-1.1.4.exe (5.9M) ftp://ftp.gpg4win.org/gpg4win/gpg4win-1.1.4.exe.sig A separate installer with the source files used to build the above installer is available at: ftp://ftp.gpg4win.org/gpg4win/gpg4win-src-1.1.4.exe (60M) ftp://ftp.gpg4win.org/gpg4win/gpg4win-src-1.1.4.exe.sig Most people don't need this source installer; it is merely stored on that server to satisfy the conditions of the GPL. In general it is better to get the gpg4win builder tarball (see above) and follow the instructions in the README to build new installers; building the installer is not possible on Windows machines and works best on current Debian GNU/Linux systems (we currently use the mingw32 package from Etch). SHA1 checksums are: e1c41605b0a359759059e4e2f527055b0f4036d5 gpg4win-1.1.4.exe 6ae2b32ec97801543e954fd23888fa10a9a1781a gpg4win-light-1.1.4.exe 08c585347750e8345d964afa73aff7d455c81f39 gpg4win-src-1.1.4.exe 6a3ec8f7cb5a4252b3b93f49b733bcb5e344eb06 gpg4win-1.1.4.tar.bz2 MD5 checksums are: b2e18fd37a14b065a8361f5348c83f72 gpg4win-1.1.4.exe bb3bee4d8c30f5376d532c7135b17045 gpg4win-light-1.1.4.exe 2efc36781e7b3f463064129d6819fe4d gpg4win-src-1.1.4.exe 2b1ac6dbc4d4fe3e710348b7a671b102 gpg4win-1.1.4.tar.bz2 If you have problems downloading the above files, you may try the mirror servers listed at the download page. We like to thank the authors of the included packages, the NSIS authors, all other contributors and first of all, those folks who stayed with us and helped testing Gpg4win. To help furthering this project, please consider to sponsor the development. See http://www.gpg4win.org . Happy hacking, The Gpg4win hackers -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Auschnahme regelt ein Bundeschgesetz. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 205 bytes Desc: not available URL: From wk at gnupg.org Tue Mar 3 12:45:08 2009 From: wk at gnupg.org (Werner Koch) Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:45:08 +0100 Subject: [Announce] GnuPG 2.0.11 released Message-ID: <87sklug797.fsf@wheatstone.g10code.de> Hello! We are pleased to announce the availability of a new stable GnuPG-2 release: Version 2.0.11. The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data, create digital signatures, help authenticating using Secure Shell and to provide a framework for public key cryptography. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the OpenPGP and S/MIME standards. GnuPG-2 has a different architecture than GnuPG-1 (e.g. 1.4.9) in that it splits up functionality into several modules. However, both versions may be installed alongside without any conflict. In fact, the gpg version from GnuPG-1 is able to make use of the gpg-agent as included in GnuPG-2 and allows for seamless passphrase caching. The advantage of GnuPG-1 is its smaller size and the lack of dependency on other modules at run and build time. We will keep maintaining GnuPG-1 versions because they are very useful for small systems and for server based applications requiring only OpenPGP support. GnuPG is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL version 3). GnuPG-2 works best on GNU/Linux or *BSD systems. What's New in 2.0.11 ==================== * Fixed a problem in SCDAEMON which caused unexpected card resets. * SCDAEMON is now aware of the Geldkarte. * The SCDAEMON option --allow-admin is now used by default. * GPGCONF now restarts SCdaemon if necessary. * The default cipher algorithm in GPGSM is now again 3DES. This is due to interoperability problems with Outlook 2003 which still can't cope with AES. Getting the Software ==================== Please follow the instructions found at http://www.gnupg.org/download/ or read on: GnuPG 2.0.11 may be downloaded from one of the GnuPG mirror sites or direct from ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/ . The list of mirrors can be found at http://www.gnupg.org/mirrors.html . Note, that GnuPG is not available at ftp.gnu.org. On the FTP server and its mirrors you should find the following files in the gnupg/ directory: gnupg-2.0.11.tar.bz2 (3763k) gnupg-2.0.11.tar.bz2.sig GnuPG source compressed using BZIP2 and OpenPGP signature. gnupg-2.0.10-2.0.11.diff.bz2 (29k) A patch file to upgrade a 2.0.10 GnuPG source tree. This patch does not include updates of the language files. Note, that we don't distribute gzip compressed tarballs for GnuPG-2. 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 trusted version of GnuPG installed, you can simply check the supplied signature. For example to check the signature of the file gnupg-2.0.11.tar.bz2 you would use this command: gpg --verify gnupg-2.0.11.tar.bz2.sig This checks whether the signature file matches the source file. You should see a message indicating that the signature is good and made by that signing key. Make sure that you have the right key, either by checking the fingerprint of that key with other sources or by checking that the key has been signed by a trustworthy other key. Note, that you can retrieve the signing key using the command finger wk ,at' g10code.com or using a keyserver like gpg --recv-key 1CE0C630 The distribution key 1CE0C630 is signed by the well known key 5B0358A2. If you get an key expired message, you should retrieve a fresh copy as the expiration date might have been prolonged. NEVER USE A GNUPG VERSION YOU JUST DOWNLOADED TO CHECK THE INTEGRITY OF THE SOURCE - USE AN EXISTING GNUPG INSTALLATION! * If you are not able to use an old version of GnuPG, you have to verify the SHA-1 checksum. Assuming you downloaded the file gnupg-2.0.11.tar.bz2, you would run the sha1sum command like this: sha1sum gnupg-2.0.11.tar.bz2 and check that the output matches the first line from the following list: 9f71a342c5be686b0dcef082078af693802a558f gnupg-2.0.11.tar.bz2 5cf75b4405ba9ed908b85ef3b614ef06f3a6ab10 gnupg-2.0.10-2.0.11.diff.bz2 Internationalization ==================== GnuPG comes with support for 27 languages. Due to a lot of new and changed strings many translations are not entirely complete. Jedi, Maxim Britov, Jaime Su?rez and Nilg?n Belma Bug?ner have been kind enough to go over their translations and thus the Chinese, German, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish translations are pretty much complete. Documentation ============= We are currently working on an installation guide to explain in more detail how to configure the new features. As of now the chapters on gpg-agent and gpgsm include brief information on how to set up the whole thing. Please watch the GnuPG website for updates of the documentation. In the meantime you may search the GnuPG mailing list archives or ask on the gnupg-users mailing lists for advise on how to solve problems. Many of the new features are around for several years and thus enough public knowledge is already available. KDE's KMail is the most prominent user of GnuPG-2. In fact it has been developed along with the KMail folks. Mutt users might want to use the configure option "--enable-gpgme" and "set use_crypt_gpgme" in ~/.muttrc to make use of GnuPG-2 to enable S/MIME in addition to a reworked OpenPGP support. The manual is also available online in HTML format at http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/ and in Portable Document Format at http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg.pdf . Support ======= Improving GnuPG is costly, but you can help! We are looking for organizations that find GnuPG useful and wish to contribute back. You can contribute by reporting bugs, improve the software, order extensions or support or more general by donating money to the Free Software movement (e.g. http://www.fsfeurope.org/help/donate.en.html). Commercial support contracts for GnuPG are available, and they help finance continued maintenance. g10 Code GmbH, a Duesseldorf based company owned and headed by GnuPG's principal author, is currently funding GnuPG development. We are always looking for interesting development projects. The GnuPG service directory is available at: http://www.gnupg.org/service.html Thanks ====== We have to thank all the people who helped with this release, be it testing, coding, translating, suggesting, auditing, administering the servers, spreading the word or answering questions on the mailing lists. Happy Hacking, The GnuPG Team -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Auschnahme regelt ein Bundeschgesetz. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: not available URL: