Hi! As you probably all know, a security problem with the compress library zlib has been found which affects a lot of software. For details see: http://www.zlib.org/advisory-2002-03-11.txt and the security announcements for your OS. GnuPG does also use zlib; however in most environments the system provided zlib is used. So an update to this system library is sufficient to fix the problem in GnuPG. On systems without a installed zlib, the GnuPG build process automatically includes the zlib copy which come with it. This may also be forced by using the --with-included-zlib configure option. On those systems, GnuPG needs to be updated! A patch with instructions is attached to this mail. Note, that the MS-Windows version is also affected by this bug; an updated binary package will be available soon. Werner -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: gnupg-zlib.patch Type: text/x-patch Size: 10158 bytes Desc: not available Url : /pipermail/attachments/20020315/44c9489e/gnupg-zlib.bin