Hello! We are pleased to announce the availability of Libgcrypt 1.2.2. Libgcrypt is a general purpose library of cryptographic building blocks. It is based on the code used in GnuPG. This is a bug fix release solving a weakness in the random number generator when used by forking servers. There are no new features. It is suggested that all users of Libgcrypt update to this version. Noteworthy changes are: * Made the RNG immune against fork without exec. * Minor changes to some function declarations. Buffer arguments are now typed as void pointer. This should not affect any compilation. * A bug in the definition of gcry_cipher_register has been fixed. 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 signature are: ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.2.2.tar.bz2 (762k) ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.2.2.tar.bz2.sig These files are bzip2 compressed. If you can''t use the bunzip2 tool, gzip compressed versions of the files are also available: ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.2.2.tar.gz (937k) ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.2.2.tar.gz.sig As an alternative a patch against version 1.2.1 is available as: ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.2.1-1.2.2.diff.bz2 (140k) SHA-1 checksums are: fc61709a9719a239cf8ebbf19b84f99622655dda libgcrypt-1.2.2.tar.bz2 fdf3638c0de619343c5f2291a3e8b9fe610425ce libgcrypt-1.2.2.tar.gz aa02d0be295586604896de44195d13a4002a53b5 libgcrypt-1.2.1-1.2.2.diff.bz2 If you used the CVS version in the past, please note that we migrated the CVS repository to Subversion. Its new location is: svn://cvs.gnupg.org/libgcrypt/branches/LIBGCRYPT-1-2-BRANCH For help on installing or developing with Libgcrypt you should send mail to the grcypt-devel mailing list. For details see http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/mailing-lists.html . 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, or by donating money. Commercial support contracts for Libgcrypt are available, and they help finance continued maintenance. g10 Code GmbH, a Duesseldorf based company owned and headed by gpg''s principal author, is currently funding Libgcrypt development. We are always looking for interesting development projects. Happy hacking, Moritz and Werner -- The GnuPG Experts http://g10code.com Free Software Foundation Europe http://fsfeurope.org Join the Fellowship and protect your Freedom! http://www.fsfe.org _______________________________________________ Gnupg-announce mailing list Gnupg-announce@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-announce