Updated: gnupg-1.4.20-1

Marco Atzeri marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Mon Dec 21 09:31:00 GMT 2015


New version 1.4.20-1  of

         gnupg

is available in the Cygwin distribution:

CHANGES
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2015q4/000382.html

* Reject signatures made using the MD5 hash algorithm unless the
    new option --allow-weak-digest-algos or --pgp2 are given.

  * New option --weak-digest to specify hash algorithms which
    should be considered weak.

  * Changed default cipher for symmetric-only encryption to AES-128.

  * Fix for DoS when importing certain garbled secret keys.

  * Improved error reporting for secret subkey w/o corresponding public
    subkey.

  * Improved error reporting in decryption due to wrong algorithm.

DESCRIPTION
The GNU Privacy Guard

GnuPG is the GNU complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP
standard as defined by RFC4880 . GnuPG allows to encrypt and sign
your data and communication, features a versatile key management
system as well as access modules for all kinds of public key
directories.
GnuPG, also known as GPG, is a command line tool with features
for easy integration with other applications.

HOMEPAGE
http://www.gnupg.org/


Marco Atzeri

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