[Announce] Libgcrypt 1.8.0 released
Werner Koch
wk at gnupg.org
Tue Jul 18 22:43:19 CEST 2017
Hello!
The GnuPG Project is pleased to announce the availability of Libgcrypt
version 1.8.0. This is a new stable version of Libgcrypt with full API
and ABI compatibility to the 1.7 series. Its main features are support
Blake-2, XTS mode, an improved RNG, and performance improvements for the
ARM architecture.
Libgcrypt is a general purpose library of cryptographic building blocks.
It is originally based on code used by GnuPG. It does not provide any
implementation of OpenPGP or other protocols. Thorough understanding of
applied cryptography is required to use Libgcrypt.
Noteworthy changes between version 1.7.0 and 1.8.0:
===================================================
* New interfaces:
- New cipher mode XTS
- New hash function Blake-2
- New function gcry_mpi_point_copy.
- New function gcry_get_config.
- GCRYCTL_REINIT_SYSCALL_CLAMP allows to init nPth after Libgcrypt.
- New gobal configuration file /etc/gcrypt/random.conf.
* Extended interfaces:
- GCRYCTL_PRINT_CONFIG does now also print build information for
libgpg-error and the used compiler version.
- GCRY_CIPHER_MODE_CFB8 is now supported.
- Add Stribog OIDs. [also in 1.7.4]
* Performance:
- A jitter based entropy collector is now used in addition to the
other entropy collectors.
- Optimized gcry_md_hash_buffers for SHA-256 and SHA-512.
- More ARMv8/AArch32 improvements for AES, GCM, SHA-256, and SHA-1.
[also in 1.7.4]
- Add ARMv8/AArch32 assembly implementation for Twofish and
Camellia. [also in 1.7.4]
- Add bulk processing implementation for ARMv8/AArch32.
[also in 1.7.4]
- Improve the DRBG performance and sync the code with the Linux
version. [also in 1.7.4]
* Internal changes:
- Libgpg-error 1.25 is now required. This avoids stalling of nPth
threads due to contention on internal Libgcrypt locks (e.g. the
random pool lock).
- The system call clamp of libgpg-error is now used to wrap the
blocking read of /dev/random. This allows other nPth threads to
run while Libgcrypt is gathering entropy.
- When secure memory is requested by the MPI functions or by
gcry_xmalloc_secure, they do not anymore lead to a fatal error if
the secure memory pool is used up. Instead new pools are
allocated as needed. These new pools are not protected against
being swapped out (mlock can't be used). However, these days
this is considered a minor issue and can easily be mitigated by
using encrypted swap space. [also in 1.7.4]
* Bug fixes:
- Fix AES CTR self-check detected failure in the SSSE3 based
implementation. [also in 1.7.6]
- Remove gratuitous select before the getrandom syscall.
[also in 1.7.6]
- Fix regression in mlock detection. [bug#2870] [also in 1.7.5]
- Fix GOST 28147 CryptoPro-B S-box. [also in 1.7.4]
- Fix error code handling of mlock calls. [also in 1.7.4]
- Fix possible timing attack on EdDSA session key. [also in 1.7.7]
- Fix long standing bug in secure memory implementation which could
lead to a segv on free. [bug#3027] [also in 1.7.7]
- Mitigate a flush+reload side-channel attack on RSA secret keys
dubbed "Sliding right into disaster". For details see
<https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/627>. [CVE-2017-7526] [also in 1.7.8]
For a list of interface changes relative to the 1.7.0 release see [4].
Download
========
Source code is hosted at the GnuPG FTP server and its mirrors as listed
at <https://gnupg.org/download/mirrors.html>. On the primary server
the source tarball and its digital signature are:
ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.8.0.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.8.0.tar.bz2.sig
That file is bzip2 compressed. A gzip compressed version is here:
ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.8.0.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.8.0.tar.gz.sig
The same files are also available via HTTP:
https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.8.0.tar.bz2
https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.8.0tar.bz2.sig
https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.8.0.tar.gz
https://gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.8.0.tar.gz.sig
In order to check that the version of Libgcrypt you downloaded is an
original and unmodified file please follow the instructions found at
<https://gnupg.org/download/integrity_check.html>. In short, you may
use one of the following methods:
- Check the supplied OpenPGP signature. For example to check the
signature of the file libgcrypt-1.8.0.tar.bz2 you would use this
command:
gpg --verify libgcrypt-1.8.0.tar.bz2.sig libgcrypt-1.8.0.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 libgcrypt-1.8.0.tar.bz2, you run the command like this:
sha1sum libgcrypt-1.8.0.tar.bz2
and check that the output matches the first line from the
this list:
b4ffb20369f2ab8249d5cc0fb8b3b31371f6b112 libgcrypt-1.8.0.tar.bz2
1c5f57008e9d0944a3d0ecec894205dd1a272752 libgcrypt-1.8.0.tar.gz
You should also verify that the checksums above are authentic by
matching them with copies of this announcement. Those copies can be
found at other mailing lists, web sites, and search engines.
Copying
=======
Libgcrypt is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General
Public License (LGPLv2.1+). The helper programs as well as the
documentation are distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public
License (GPLv2+). The file LICENSES has notices about contributions
that require that these additional notices are distributed.
Support
=======
For help on developing with Libgcrypt you should read the included
manual and optional ask on the gcrypt-devel mailing list [1]. A
listing with commercial support offers for Libgcrypt and related
software is available at the GnuPG web site [2].
If you are a developer and you may need a certain feature for your
project, please do not hesitate to bring it to the gcrypt-devel
mailing list for discussion.
Maintenance and development of Libgcrypt is mostly financed by
donations; see <https://gnupg.org/donate/>. We currently employ
4 full-time developers, one part-timer, and one contractor to work on
GnuPG and closely related software like Libgcrypt.
Thanks
======
We like to thank all the people who helped with this release, be it
testing, coding, translating, suggesting, auditing, administering the
servers, spreading the word, and answering questions on the mailing
lists. Also many thanks to all our donors [3]. Special thanks to
Stephan Müller for his entropy generator based on timing jitter.
Happy hacking,
The GnuPG Team
[1] https://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gcrypt-devel
[2] https://www.gnupg.org/service.html
[3] https://gnupg.org/donate/kudos.html
[4] Interface changes relative to the 1.7.0 release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
gcry_get_config NEW function.
gcry_mpi_point_copy NEW function.
GCRYCTL_REINIT_SYSCALL_CLAMP NEW macro.
GCRY_MD_BLAKE2B_512 NEW constant.
GCRY_MD_BLAKE2B_384 NEW constant.
GCRY_MD_BLAKE2B_256 NEW constant.
GCRY_MD_BLAKE2B_160 NEW constant.
GCRY_MD_BLAKE2S_256 NEW constant.
GCRY_MD_BLAKE2S_224 NEW constant.
GCRY_MD_BLAKE2S_160 NEW constant.
GCRY_MD_BLAKE2S_128 NEW constant.
GCRY_CIPHER_MODE_XTS NEW constant.
gcry_md_info DEPRECATED.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
p.s.
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p.p.s
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2048R/4F25E3B6 2011-01-12 [expires: 2019-12-31]
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