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GnuPG stands for GNU Privacy Guard and is often abbreviated to GPG. This is a collection of tools for securing communication flows and data. It can be used to encrypt data and create digital signatures, and to provide a framework for public key cryptography. It supports both OpenPGP and s/mime standards. For more information please refer to this page. The developers recently released GnuPG 2.3.8 with the following changes:

GnuPG 2.3.8 released

We are pleased to announce the availability of a new stable GnuPG release: version 2.3.8. This release comes with a lot of new features and the binary releases come with the fix for the Libksba vulnerability CVE-2022-3515 (https://gnupg.org/blog/20221017-pepe-left-the-ksba.html).

Noteworthy changes in version 2.3.8

  • gpg: Do not consider unknown public keys as non-compliant while decrypting. [T6205]
  • gpg: Avoid to emit a compliance mode line if Libgcrypt is non-compliant. [T6221]
  • gpg: Improve –edit-key setpref command to ease c+p. [rG1908fa8b83]
  • gpg: Emit an ERROR status if –quick-set-primary-uid fails and allow to pass the user ID by hash. [T6126]
  • gpg: Actually show symmetric+pubkey encrypted data as de-vs compliant. Add additional compliance checks for symkey_enc packets. [T6119]
  • gpg: In de-vs mode use SHA-256 instead of SHA-1 as implicit preference. [T6043]
  • gpgsm: Fix reporting of bad passphrase error during PKCS#11 import. [T5713,T6037]
  • agent: Fix a regression in “READKEY –format=ssh”. [T6012]
  • agent: New option –need-attr for KEYINFO. [rG989eae648c]
  • agent: New attribute “Remote-list” for use by KEYINFO. [r1383aa4750]
  • scd: Fix problem with Yubikey 5.4 firmware. [T6070]
  • dirmngr: Fix CRL Distribution Point fallback to other schemes. [rG0c8299e2b5]
  • dirmngr: New LDAP server flag “areconly” (A-record-only). [rGd65a0335e5]
  • dirmngr: Fix upload of multiple keys for an LDAP server specified using the colon format. [rG536b5cd663]
  • dirmngr: Use LDAP schema v2 when a Base DN is specified. [T6047]
  • dirmngr: Avoid caching expired certificates. [T6142]
  • wkd: Fix path traversal attack in gpg-wks-server. Add the mail address to the pending request data. [rG8a63a8c825,T6098]
  • wkd: New command –mirror for gpg-wks-client. [T6224]
  • gpg-auth: New tool for authentication. [T5862]
  • New common.conf option no-autostart. [rG203dcc19eb]
  • Silence warnings from AllowSetForegroundWindow unless GNUPG_EXEC_DEBUG_FLAGS is used. [rG4ef8516a79]

Release info: https://dev.gnupg.org/T6106

Version number 2.3.8
Operating systems Linux, BSD, macOS, Solaris, UNIX, Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows 11
Website GnuPG
Download https://www.gnupg.org/download/index.html
License type Prerequisites (GNU/BSD/etc.)
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