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1998-05-13 17:53:36 +00:00
Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.18
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* Splitted cipher/random.c, add new option "--disable-dev-random"
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to configure to support the development of a random source for
other systems. Prepared sourcefiles rand-unix.c, rand-w32.c
and rand-dummy.c (which is used to allow compilation on systems
without a random source).
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* Fixed a small bug in the key generation (it was possible that 48 bits
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of a key were not taken from the random pool)
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* Add key generation for DSA and v4 signatures.
* Add a function trap_unaligned(), so that a SIGBUS is issued on
Alphas and not the slow emulation code is used. And success: rmd160
raised a SIGBUS.
* Enhanced the formatting facility of argparse and changed the use of
\r,\v to @ because gettext does not like it.
* New option "--compress-algo 1" to allow the creation of compressed
messages which are readable by PGP and "--print-md" (gpgm) to make
speed measurement easier.
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1998-05-04 18:49:26 +00:00
Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.17
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* Comment packets are now of private type 61.
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* Passphrase code still used a 160 bit blowfish key, added a
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silly workaround. Please change your passphrase again - sorry.
* Conventional encryption now uses a type 3 packet to describe the
used algorithms.
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* The new algorithm number for Blowfish is 20, 16 is still used for
encryption only; for signing it is only used when it is in a v3 packet,
so that GNUPG keys are still valid.
1998-05-03 19:35:33 +00:00
1998-04-30 14:06:01 +00:00
Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.16
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* Add experimental support for the TIGER/192 message diigest algorithm.
(But there is only a dummy ASN OID).
* Standard cipher is now Blowfish with 128 bit key in OpenPGP's CFB
mode. I renamed the old cipher to Blowfish160. Because the OpenPGP
group refused to assign me a number for Blowfish160, I have to
drop support for this in the future. You should use
"--change-passphrase" to recode your current passphrase with 128
bit Blowfish.
1998-04-04 20:16:55 +00:00
Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.15
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1998-04-07 18:16:10 +00:00
* Fixed a bug with the old checksum calculation for secret keys.
If you run the program without --batch, a warning does inform
you if your secret key needs to be converted; simply use
--change-passphrase to recalculate the checksum. Please do this
soon, as the compatible mode will be removed sometime in the future.
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* CAST5 works (using the PGP's special CFB mode).
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* Again somewhat more PGP 5 compatible.
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* Some new test cases
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1998-04-02 10:30:03 +00:00
Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.14
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* Changed the internal handling of keyrings.
* Add support to list PGP 5 keyrings with supkeys
* Timestamps of signatures are now verified.
* A expiration time can now be specified during key generation.
* Some speedups for Blowfish and SHA-1, rewrote SHA-1 transform.
Reduced the amount of random bytes needed for key generation in
some cases.
1998-03-19 15:27:29 +00:00
Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.13
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* Verify of DSA signatures works.
* Re-implemented the slower random number generator.
1998-03-09 21:44:06 +00:00
Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.12
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* --delete-key checks that there is no secret key. The new
option --delete-secret-key maybe used to delete a secret key.
* "-kv" now works as expected. Options "--list-{keys,sigs]"
and "--check-sigs" are now working.
* New options "--verify" and "--decrypt" to better support integration
into MUAs (partly done for Mutt).
* New option "--with-colons" to make parsing of key lists easier.
1998-03-03 08:43:28 +00:00
Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.11
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* GPG now asks for a recipient's name if option "-r" is not used.
* If there is no good trust path, the program asks whether to use
the public keys anyway.
* "--delete-key" works for public keys. What semantics shall I use
when there is a secret key too? Delete the secret key or leave him
and auto-regenerate the public key, netxt time the secret key is used?
1998-02-27 17:51:28 +00:00
Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.10
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* Code for the alpha is much faster (about 20 times); the data
was misaligned and the kernel traps this, so nearly all time
was used by system to trap the misalignments and to write
syslog messages. Shame on me and thanks to Ralph for
pointing me at this while drinking some beer yesterday.
* Changed some configure options and add an option
--disable-m-guard to remove the memory checking code
and to compile everthing with optimization on.
* New environment variable GNUPGHOME, which can be used to set
another homedir than ~/.gnupg. Changed default homedir for
Windoze version to c:/gnupg.
* Fixed detached signatures; detached PGP signatures caused a SEGV.
* The Windoze version works (as usual w/o a strong RNG).
1998-02-26 16:56:31 +00:00
Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.9
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* Fixed FreeBSD bug.
* Added a simple man page.
* Switched to automake1.2f and a newer gettext.
1998-02-24 18:50:46 +00:00
Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.8
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* Changed the name to GNUPG, the binaries are called gpg and gpgm.
You must rename rename the directory "~/.g10" to ~/.gnupg/, rename
{pub,sec}ring.g10 to {pub,sec}ring.gpg, trustdb.g10 to trustdb.gpg
and g10.sig to gnupg.sig.
* New or changed passphrases are now salted.
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Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.7
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* New command "gen-revoke" to create a key revocation certificate.
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* New option "homedir" to set the homedir (which defaults to "~/.g10").
This directory is created if it does not exists (only the last
part of the name and not the complete hierarchy)
* Command "import" works. (Try: "finger gcrypt@ftp.guug.de|g10 --import")
* New commands "dearmor/enarmor" for g10maint. These are mainly
used for internal test purposes.
* Option --version now conforming to the GNU standards and lists
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the available ciphers, message digests and public key algorithms.
* Assembler code for m68k (not tested).
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* "make check" works.
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Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.6
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* Option "--export" works.
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Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.5
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* Added zlib for systems which don't have it.
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Use "./configure --with-zlib" to link with the static version.
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* Generalized some more functions and rewrote the encoding of
message digests into MPIs.
* Enhanced the checkit script
Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.4
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* nearly doubled the speed of the ElGamal signature verification.
* backup copies of keyrings are created.
* assembler stuff for Pentium; gives about 15% better perfomance.
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* fixed a lot of bugs.
Noteworthy changes in version 0.2.3
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* Found a bug in the calculation of ELG fingerprints. This is now
fixed, but all existing fingerprints and keyids for ELG keys
are not any more valid.
* armor should now work; including clear signed text.
* moved some options to the new program g10maint
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* It's now 64 bit clean and runs fine on an alpha--linux.
* Key generation is much faster now. I fixed this by using not
so strong random number for the primes (this was a bug because the
ElGamal primes are public parameters and it does not make sense
to generate them from strong random). The real secret is the x value
which is still generated from strong (okay: /dev/random) random bits.
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* added option "--status-fd": see g10/OPTIONS
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* We have secure memeory on systems which support mlock().
It is not complete yet, because we do not have signal handler
which does a cleanup in very case.
We should also check the ulimit for the user in the case
that the admin does not have set a limit on locked pages.
* started with internationalization support.
1998-01-25 18:56:33 +00:00
* The logic to handle the web of trust is now implemented. It is
has some bugs; but I'm going to change the algorithm anyway.
It works by calculating the trustlevel on the fly. It may ask
you to provide trust parameters if the calculated trust probability
is too low. I will write a paper which discusses this new approach.
* a couple of changes to the configure script.
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* New option "--quick-random" which uses a much quicker random
number generator. Keys generated while this option is in effect
are flags with "INSECURE!" in the user-id. This is a development
only option.
* Read support for new version packets (OpenPGP).
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* Comment packets are now of correct OpenPGP type 16. Old comment
packets written by G10 are detected because they always start with
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a hash which is an invalid version byte.
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* The string "(INSECURE!)" is appended to a new user-id if this
is generated on a system without a good random number generator.