About:
GnuPG (the GNU Privacy Guard or GPG) is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC2440. As such, it is meant to be compatible with PGP from NAI, Inc. Because it does not use any patented algorithms, it can be used without any restrictions.

Release focus: Minor security fixes

Changes:
A possible memory corruption while importing OpenPGP keys, as reported in CVE-2008-1530, was fixed. The Admin PIN for OpenPGP cards may now be entered with the pinpad. Certificate chain construction was improved. The PKITS framework was extended. A bug in the ambigious name detection was fixed. Further minor bugfixes were made.

Author:
Werner Koch <wk |at| computer |dot| org> [contact developer]

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8.66/10.00 (39 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.gnupg.org/
Tar/BZ2:
http://www.gnupg.org/download/
Changelog:
http://cvs.gnupg.org/[..]ewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/trunk/NEWS?rev=4719
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://cvs.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/
Mailing list archive:
http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/mailing-lists.html
Mirror site:
http://www.gnupg.org/download/mirrors.html

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Topic]		Security :: Cryptography

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Monolithic	1.4.9	29-Mar-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Modular	2.0.9	29-Mar-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
2.0.9	Minor security fixes	29-Mar-2008 23:35
2.0.8	Minor feature enhancements	27-Jan-2008 13:04
2.0.7	Minor feature enhancements	16-Oct-2007 05:30
2.0.3	Major security fixes	10-Apr-2007 07:24
2.0.1	Major feature enhancements	08-Dec-2006 03:57
1.9.14	Minor feature enhancements	30-Dec-2004 03:13
1.9.12	Major bugfixes	07-Nov-2004 00:22
1.3.6	Major security fixes	07-Jun-2004 17:00

 Articles referencing this project

Enigform: The OpenPGP Firefox Extension by Arturo Busleiman , in Editorials Sat, Apr 14th 2007 00:00 SuSE: New gpg packages fix signature bypassing by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Apr 1st 2007 01:39 Red Hat: Updated GnuPG packages fix a security issue by Patrick Lenz , in Security Wed, Mar 21st 2007 03:14 Debian: New gnupg packages fix signature forgery by Patrick Lenz , in Security Wed, Mar 21st 2007 03:00 Red Hat: Updated GnuPG packages fix a security issue by Patrick Lenz , in Security Fri, Mar 9th 2007 08:39

SuSE: New gpg packages fix remote code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Dec 17th 2006 01:54 Debian: New gnupg packages fix arbitrary code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Dec 10th 2006 03:12 Red Hat: Updated GnuPG packages fix two security issues by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Dec 10th 2006 03:10 Debian: New GnuPG packages fix denial of service by Patrick Lenz , in Security Thu, Aug 24th 2006 12:58 [more articles]

 Comments

[»] Geheimnis supports GnuPG 0.9x
by Chris Wiegand - Jul 30th 1999 15:27:43

Geheimnis since 0.50 supports GnuPG 0.9x, and in future releases, will support advanced options like choosing the hash, encryption method, etc...

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[»] Use GnuPG in your own programms
by mroth - Jun 28th 1999 15:33:17

Privacy Guard Glue is a library written in C to add GnuPG support to applications. It uses the coprocessing interface of GnuPG.

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