Mailing lists

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gnupg-announce@gnupg.org

It is used to announce new releases and for other important messages.

gnupg-users@gnupg.org

It is used as a general discussion and help forum.

gnupg-devel@gnupg.org

It is used for development and bug tracking.

gnupg-i18n@gnupg.org

It is used for discussion of translations and related things.

gnupg-doc@gnupg.org

is used for the development of the GNU Privacy Handbook .

gcrypt-devel@gnupg.org

It is used to discuss the development of the GNU crypto library which will be used by a future GnuPG version and is also used by a couple of other projects.

gpa-dev@gnupg.org

It is used to discuss the development of the GNU Privacy Assistant (a graphical frontend for GnuPG).

gnupg-br@gnupg.org

Help and discussion among Portuguese (Brazil) speaking users of GnuPG.

gnupg-de@gnupg.org

Help and discussion among German speaking users of GnuPG.

gnupg-es@gnupg.org

Help and discussion among Spanish speaking users of GnuPG.

gnupg-ru@gnupg.org

Help and discussion among Russian speaking users of GnuPG.

There are also a few mailing lists which receive log information for CVS commits; you will find them under the mailing list manager .

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Please write to the mailing lists in English only.

Other discussion groups

There are also several country-specific mailing-lists to subscribe to. It is important to note that these mailing-lists are not hosted on GnuPG's servers, but are of great help for all of those who feel more confortable when speaking their own native language.

GnuPG News Japan

Discussion group for Japanese users.

gnupg-it

Mailing dedicated to GnuPG users who speak Italian.