From wk at gnupg.org Mon Jan 30 17:36:52 2012 From: wk at gnupg.org (Werner Koch) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:36:52 +0100 Subject: [Announce] GnuPG 1.4.12 released Message-ID: <87mx9587vf.fsf@vigenere.g10code.de> Hello! We are pleased to announce the availability of a new stable GnuPG-1 release: Version 1.4.12. The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It is a complete and free replacement of PGP and can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. It includes an advanced key management facility, smartcard support and is compliant with the OpenPGP Internet standard as described by RFC-4880. Note that this version is from the GnuPG-1 series and thus smaller than those from the GnuPG-2 series, easier to build and also better portable to ancient platforms. In contrast to GnuPG-2 (e.g version 2.0.18) it comes with no support for S/MIME, Secure Shell, or other tools useful for desktop environments. Fortunately you may install both versions alongside on the same system without any conflict. What's New =========== * GPG now accepts a space separated fingerprint as a user ID. This allows to copy and paste the fingerprint from the key listing. * Removed support for the original HKP keyserver which is not anymore used by any site. * Rebuild the trustdb after changing the option --min-cert-level. * Improved JPEG detection. * Included more VMS patches * Made it easier to create an installer for Windows. * Supports the 32 bit variant of the mingw-w64 toolchain. * Made file locking more portable. * Minor bug fixes. * Ukrainian translation. Getting the Software ==================== First of all, decide whether you really need GnuPG version 1.4.x - most users are better off with the modern GnuPG 2.0.x version. Thene follow the instructions found at http://www.gnupg.org/download/ or read on: GnuPG 1.4.12 may be downloaded from one of the GnuPG mirror sites or direct from ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/ . The list of mirrors can be found at http://www.gnupg.org/mirrors.html . Note, that GnuPG is not available at ftp.gnu.org. On the mirrors you should find the following files in the *gnupg* directory: gnupg-1.4.12.tar.bz2 (3500k) gnupg-1.4.12.tar.bz2.sig GnuPG source compressed using BZIP2 and OpenPGP signature. gnupg-1.4.12.tar.gz (4823k) gnupg-1.4.12.tar.gz.sig GnuPG source compressed using GZIP and OpenPGP signature. gnupg-1.4.11-1.4.12.diff.bz2 (574k) A patch file to upgrade a 1.4.11 GnuPG source tree. This patch does not include updates of the language files. Select one of them. To shorten the download time, you probably want to get the BZIP2 compressed file. Please try another mirror if exceptional your mirror is not yet up to date. In the *binary* directory, you should find these files: gnupg-w32cli-1.4.12.exe (1557k) gnupg-w32cli-1.4.12.exe.sig GnuPG compiled for Microsoft Windows and OpenPGP signature. This is a command line only version; the source files are the same as given above. Note, that this is a minimal installer and unless you are just in need for the gpg binary, you are better off using the full featured installer at http://www.gpg4win.org . Checking the Integrity ====================== In order to check that the version of GnuPG which you are going to install is an original and unmodified one, you can do it in one of the following ways: * If you already have a trusted version of GnuPG installed, you can simply check the supplied signature. For example to check the signature of the file gnupg-1.4.12.tar.bz2 you would use this command: gpg --verify gnupg-1.4.12.tar.bz2.sig This checks whether the signature file matches the source file. You should see a message indicating that the signature is good and made by that signing key. Make sure that you have the right key, either by checking the fingerprint of that key with other sources or by checking that the key has been signed by a trustworthy other key. Note, that you can retrieve the signing key using the command finger wk ,at' g10code.com | gpg --import or using a keyserver like gpg --recv-key 4F25E3B6 The distribution key 1CE0C630 is signed by the well known keys 1E42B367. If you get an key expired message, you should retrieve a fresh copy as the expiration date might have been prolonged. NEVER USE A GNUPG VERSION YOU JUST DOWNLOADED TO CHECK THE INTEGRITY OF THE SOURCE - USE AN EXISTING GNUPG INSTALLATION! * If you are not able to use an old version of GnuPG, you have to verify the SHA-1 checksum. Assuming you downloaded the file gnupg-1.4.12.tar.bz2, you would run the sha1sum command like this: sha1sum gnupg-1.4.12.tar.bz2 and check that the output matches the first line from the following list: 9b78e20328d35525af7b8a9c1cf081396910e937 gnupg-1.4.12.tar.bz2 790587e440ec7d429b120db7a96a237badc638fd gnupg-1.4.12.tar.gz 5ce9105ce6b6c9c38638eead87658f4b735a4a68 gnupg-1.4.11-1.4.12.diff.bz2 e7d8e48900d35fe407a8d8308b3a02b8de46b2f2 gnupg-w32cli-1.4.12.exe Internationalization ==================== GnuPG comes with support for 29 languages. Due to a lot of new and changed strings some translations are not entirely complete. The Chinese (Simple and Traditional), Czech, Dutch, French, German, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian and Turkish translations are close to be complete. Support ======= A listing with commercial support offers for GnuPG is available at: http://www.gnupg.org/service.html Improving and maintaining GnuPG is costly, but you can help! g10 Code GmbH (http://g10code.com), a Duesseldorf based company owned and headed by GnuPG's principal author, has been funding GnuPG development for more than 10 years now. They are looking for organizations that find GnuPG useful and wish to contribute back by ordering extensions, sign into a support contract, or employ them for other development projects. Thanks ====== We have to thank all the people who helped with this release, be it testing, coding, translating, suggesting, auditing, donating money, spreading the word, or answering questions on the mailing lists. Happy Hacking, The GnuPG Team (David, Werner and the other contributors) -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 207 bytes Desc: not available URL: From wk at gnupg.org Tue Mar 27 11:20:14 2012 From: wk at gnupg.org (Werner Koch) Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:20:14 +0200 Subject: [Announce] GnuPG 2.0.19 released Message-ID: <871uoev1rl.fsf@vigenere.g10code.de> Hello! We are pleased to announce the availability of a new stable GnuPG-2 release: Version 2.0.19. The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data, create digital signatures, help authenticating using Secure Shell and to provide a framework for public key cryptography. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the OpenPGP and S/MIME standards. GnuPG-2 has a different architecture than GnuPG-1 (e.g. 1.4.12) in that it splits up functionality into several modules. However, both versions may be installed alongside without any conflict. In fact, the gpg version from GnuPG-1 is able to make use of the gpg-agent as included in GnuPG-2 and allows for seamless passphrase caching. The advantage of GnuPG-1 is its smaller size and the lack of dependency on other modules at run and build time. We will keep maintaining GnuPG-1 versions because they are very useful for small systems and for server based applications requiring only OpenPGP support. GnuPG is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3+). GnuPG-2 works best on GNU/Linux and *BSD systems but is also available for other Unices, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. What's New in 2.0.19 ==================== * GPG now accepts a space separated fingerprint as a user ID. This allows to copy and paste the fingerprint from the key listing. * GPG now uses the longest key ID available. Removed support for the original HKP keyserver which is not anymore used by any site. * Rebuild the trustdb after changing the option --min-cert-level. * Ukrainian translation. * Honor option --cert-digest-algo when creating a cert. * Emit a DECRYPTION_INFO status line. * Improved detection of JPEG files. Getting the Software ==================== Please follow the instructions found at http://www.gnupg.org/download/ or read on: GnuPG 2.0.19 may be downloaded from one of the GnuPG mirror sites or direct from ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/ . The list of mirrors can be found at http://www.gnupg.org/mirrors.html . Note, that GnuPG is not available at ftp.gnu.org. On the FTP server and its mirrors you should find the following files in the gnupg/ directory: gnupg-2.0.19.tar.bz2 (4089k) gnupg-2.0.19.tar.bz2.sig GnuPG source compressed using BZIP2 and OpenPGP signature. gnupg-2.0.18-2.0.19.diff.bz2 (305k) A patch file to upgrade a 2.0.18 GnuPG source tree. This patch does not include updates of the language files. Note, that we don't distribute gzip compressed tarballs for GnuPG-2. Checking the Integrity ====================== In order to check that the version of GnuPG which you are going to install is an original and unmodified one, you can do it in one of the following ways: * If you already have a trusted version of GnuPG installed, you can simply check the supplied signature. For example to check the signature of the file gnupg-2.0.19.tar.bz2 you would use this command: gpg --verify gnupg-2.0.19.tar.bz2.sig This checks whether the signature file matches the source file. You should see a message indicating that the signature is good and made by that signing key. Make sure that you have the right key, either by checking the fingerprint of that key with other sources or by checking that the key has been signed by a trustworthy other key. Note, that you can retrieve the signing key using the command finger wk ,at' g10code.com or using a keyserver like gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key 4F25E3B6 The distribution key 4F25E3B6 is signed by the well known key 1E42B367. NEVER USE A GNUPG VERSION YOU JUST DOWNLOADED TO CHECK THE INTEGRITY OF THE SOURCE - USE AN EXISTING GNUPG INSTALLATION! * If you are not able to use an old version of GnuPG, you have to verify the SHA-1 checksum. Assuming you downloaded the file gnupg-2.0.19.tar.bz2, you would run the sha1sum command like this: sha1sum gnupg-2.0.19.tar.bz2 and check that the output matches the first line from the following list: 190c09e6688f688fb0a5cf884d01e240d957ac1f gnupg-2.0.19.tar.bz2 d5e5643dc5ecb4e5296f1a9500f850cfbfd0f8ff gnupg-2.0.18-2.0.19.diff.bz2 Documentation ============= The file gnupg.info has the complete user manual of the system. Separate man pages are included as well; however they have not all the details available in the manual. It is also possible to read the complete manual online in HTML format at http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/ or in Portable Document Format at http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg.pdf . The chapters on gpg-agent, gpg and gpgsm include information on how to set up the whole thing. You may also want search the GnuPG mailing list archives or ask on the gnupg-users mailing lists for advise on how to solve problems. Many of the new features are around for several years and thus enough public knowledge is already available. Almost all mail clients support GnuPG-2. Mutt users may want to use the configure option "--enable-gpgme" during build time and put a "set use_crypt_gpgme" in ~/.muttrc to enable S/MIME support along with the reworked OpenPGP support. Support ======= Please consult the archive of the gnupg-users mailing list before reporting a bug . We suggest to send bug reports for a new release to this list in favor of filing a bug at . We also have a dedicated service directory at: http://www.gnupg.org/service.html Maintaining and improving GnuPG is costly. For more than 10 years now, g10 Code, a German company owned and headed by GnuPG's principal author Werner Koch, is bearing the majority of these costs. To help them carry on this work, they need your support. Please consider to visit the GnuPG donation page at: http://g10code.com/gnupg-donation.html Thanks ====== We have to thank all the people who helped with this release, be it testing, coding, translating, suggesting, auditing, administering the servers, spreading the word or answering questions on the mailing lists. Happy Hacking, The GnuPG Team -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 207 bytes Desc: not available URL: