[Announce] Libgcrypt 1.1.12 released

[R. A. Hettinga]

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To: gnupg-announce at gnupg.org
From: Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org>
Organisation: g10 Code GmbH
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Subject: [Announce] Libgcrypt 1.1.12 released
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Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 12:18:57 +0100

Hello!

I am pleased to announce a new Beta version of Libgcrypt, GNU's
implementation of basic crypto functions.

Libgcrypt is a general purpose cryptographic library based on the code
from GnuPG.  It provides functions for all cryptograhic building
blocks: symmetric ciphers (AES, DES, Blowfish, CAST5, Twofish,
Arcfour), hash algorithms (MD4, MD5, RIPE-MD160, SHA-1, TIGER-192),
MACs (HMAC for all hash algorithms), public key algorithms (RSA,
ElGamal, DSA), large integer functions, random numbers and a lot of
supporting functions.  Libgcrypt is available under the GNU Lesser
General Public License (LGPL). See also
http://www.gnu.org/directory/security/libgcrypt.html

Libgcrypt can be downloaded from ftp.gnupg.org or one of the mirrors
as listed at http://www.gnupg.org/download/mirrors.html .

 ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.1.12.tar.gz (724k)
 ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.1.12.tar.gz.sig

or as a diff against version 1.1.11:

 ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.1.11-1.1.12.diff.gz
(83k)

Please check the signature, the key is available by finger:wk at g10code.com .

Aside of bug fixes here are some real news:

 * gcry_pk_sign, gcry_pk_verify and gcry_pk_encrypt can now handle an
   optional pkcs1 flags parameter in the S-expression.  A similar flag
   may be passed to gcry_pk_decrypt but it is only syntactically
   implemented.

 * New convenience macro gcry_md_get_asnoid.

 * There is now some real stuff in the manual.


We are now heading for a stable (non-Beta) 1.2 release within the next
few months.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner


p.s.
If you want to help with further development by donating money
please visit https://order.kagi.com/?P3G .


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