Hello! The GNU project is pleased to announce the availability of Libgcrypt version 1.4.4. 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 in version 1.4.4: * Publish GCRY_MODULE_ID_USER and GCRY_MODULE_ID_USER_LAST constants. 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: </pipermail/attachments/20090122/2257b767/attachment-0001.pgp>