Hello! The GNU project is pleased to announce the availability of Libgcrypt version 1.4.3. 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 1.4.3: * Try to auto-initialize Libgcrypt to minimize the effect of applications not doing that correctly. This is not a perfect solution but given that many applicationion would totally fail without such a hack, we try to help at least with the most common cases. Folks, please read the manual to learn how to properly initialize Libgcrypt! * Auto-initialize the secure memory to 32k instead of aborting the process. * Log fatal errors via syslog. * Changed the name and the semantics of the fips mode config file. * Add convenience macro gcry_fips_mode_active. * More self-tests. * Documentation cleanups. 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-1.4.3.tar.bz2 (1062k) ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.4.3.tar.bz2.sig This file is bzip2 compressed. A gzip compressed version is also available: ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.4.3.tar.gz (1325k) ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.4.3.tar.gz.sig Alternativley you may upgrade version 1.4.2 using this patch file: ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.4.2-1.4.3.diff.bz2 (42k) The SHA-1 checksums are: bdc67c1fdcec464a94dca691615f2335a12db5ce libgcrypt-1.4.3.tar.bz2 3d9d583501ce951596fa7dd3667afd357ac7d056 libgcrypt-1.4.3.tar.gz e28b74c5824364e20ae7f147f1b89925f5426669 libgcrypt-1.4.2-1.4.3.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 . -- Linux-Kongress 2008 + Hamburg + October 7-10 + www.linux-kongress.org 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/20080918/650a28e4/attachment.pgp>