From e1ff4a3305d5a8cdbaffa4c5d3254ca49c438c27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Shaw Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 23:58:42 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * README: Update version number. Add BZIP2. Remove Elgamal sign+encrypt. --- ChangeLog | 5 +++++ README | 27 +++++++++++++-------------- 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 42d47d873..bd145e902 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2003-11-30 David Shaw + + * README: Update version number. Add BZIP2. Remove Elgamal + sign+encrypt. + 2003-11-29 David Shaw * NEWS: Note that the only thing we will generate with an Elgamal diff --git a/README b/README index 022f92c9f..b59a83a68 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,18 +1,19 @@ GnuPG - The GNU Privacy Guard ------------------------------- - Version 1.2.3 + Version 1.2.4 Copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. - This file is free software; as a special exception the author gives - unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, with or without - modifications, as long as this notice is preserved. + This file is free software; as a special exception the author + gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, with or + without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved. This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but - WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law; without even the - implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. + WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law; without even + the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A + PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Intro @@ -36,14 +37,12 @@ more information on this subject, including what to do if you are legally entitled to use IDEA. - The default algorithms are DSA and ElGamal, but RSA is also - supported. ElGamal for signing is available, but because of the - larger size of such signatures it is strongly deprecated (Please - note that the GnuPG implementation of ElGamal signatures is *not* - insecure). Symmetric algorithms are: AES, 3DES, Blowfish, CAST5 - and Twofish. Digest algorithms available are MD5, RIPEMD/160, - SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512. Compression algorithms - available are ZIP and ZLIB. + The default public key algorithms are DSA and ElGamal, but RSA is + also supported. Symmetric algorithms available are AES (with 128, + 192, and 256 bit keys), 3DES, Blowfish, CAST5 and Twofish. Digest + algorithms available are MD5, RIPEMD/160, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, + and SHA-512. Compression algorithms available are ZIP, ZLIB, and + BZIP2 (with libbz2 installed). Installation