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GnuPG 2.1.10 Released

posted by martyb on Tuesday December 08 2015, @07:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the getting-better-all-the-time dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

The GnuPG team is pleased to announce the availability of a new release
of GnuPG modern: Version 2.1.10. The main features of this release are
support for TOFU (Trust-On-First-Use) and anonymous key retrieval via
Tor.
...
Noteworthy changes in version 2.1.10
====================================

[More after the break.]

  * gpg: New trust models "tofu" and "tofu+pgp".

  * gpg: New command --tofu-policy. New options --tofu-default-policy
      and --tofu-db-format.

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

  * gpg: Allow the use of multiple --default-key options; take the last
      available key.

  * gpg: New option --encrypt-to-default-key.

  * gpg: New option --unwrap to only strip the encryption layer.

  * gpg: New option --only-sign-text-ids to exclude photo IDs from key
      signing.

  * gpg: Check for ambigious or non-matching key specification in the
      config file or given to --encrypt-to.

  * gpg: Show the used card reader with --card-status.

  * gpg: Print export statistics and an EXPORTED status line.

  * gpg: Allow selecting subkeys by keyid in --edit-key.

  * gpg: Allow updating the expiration time of multiple subkeys at
      once.

  * dirmngr: New option --use-tor. For full support this requires
      libassuan version 2.4.2 and a patched version of libadns
      (e.g. adns-1.4-g10-7 as used by the standard Windows installer).

  * dirmngr: New option --nameserver to specify the nameserver used in
      Tor mode.

  * dirmngr: Keyservers may again be specified by IP address.

  * dirmngr: Fixed problems in resolving keyserver pools.

  * dirmngr: Fixed handling of premature termination of TLS streams so
      that large numbers of keys can be refreshed via hkps.

  * gpg: Fixed a regression in --locate-key [since 2.1.9].

  * gpg: Fixed another bug for keyrings with legacy keys.

  * gpgsm: Allow combinations of usage flags in --gen-key.

  * Make tilde expansion work with most options.

  * Many other cleanups and bug fixes.

A detailed description of the changes found in the 2.1 branch can be
found at https://gnupg.org/faq/whats-new-in-2.1.html.

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 08 2015, @07:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 08 2015, @07:34PM (#273583)

    Hold on, this article isn't signed! It might have been tampered with!

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