News 1998

On this page you'll find all the news in reverse chronological order of year 1998.

A news list of year 1997 is also available.

GnuPG 0.9.0 released (1998-12-23)

• Option to dash-escape "From" in clear text messages.
• Better support for unices without /dev/random.
• Fixed some bugs.

GnuPG 0.4.5 released (1998-12-08)

• Brazilian translation.
• Improved key import.
• Loadable random gathering stuff.
• Files are now locked during updates.

GnuPG 0.4.4 released (1998-11-20)

• Spanish translation.
• Fixed the way expiration dates are stored.
• Key validation is now much faster and some more bugs fixed.
• New feature to support signed patch files.

GnuPG 0.4.3 released (1998-11-08)

• Russian translation.
• Now lists all matching names.
• Experimental support for keyrings store in GDBM files.
• Many bug fixes.

GnuPG 0.4.1 released (1998-10-07)

• Fixed a couple of bugs and add some more features.
• Checked OpenPGP compliance.
• PGP 5 passphrase are now working.

GnuPG 0.4.0 released (1998-09-18)

• Fixed a serious Bug in 0.3.5.
• Added 3DES.

GnuPG 0.3.5 released (1998-09-14)

• Do not use this version!
• Anonymous enciphered messages.
• Building in another directory now work better.
• Blowfish weak key detection mechanism.

GnuPG 0.3.4 released (1998-08-11)

Relased revision 0.3.4.

GnuPG 0.3.3 released (1998-08-08)

• Alternate user IDs.
• A menu to sign, add, remove user ids and other tasks.
• Twofish as a new experimental cipher algorithm.
• Ability to run as a coprocess; this is nice for frontends.

GnuPG 0.3.2 released (1998-07-09)

Bug fixes.

GnuPG 0.3.1 released (1998-07-06)

• Bug fixes.
• More in compliance with OpenPGP.

GnuPG 0.3.0 released (1998-06-25)

• Major enhancements.
• More complete v4 key support: Preferences and expiration time is set into the self signature.
• Key generation defaults to DSA/ElGamal keys, so that new keys are interoperable with pgp5.
• Support for dynamic loading of new algorithms.

GnuPG 0.2.19 released (1998-05-29)

• Tiger has now the OpenPGP assigned number 6. Because the OID has changed, old signatures using this algorithm can't be verified.
• GnuPG now encrypts the compressed packed and not any longer in the reverse order; anyway it can decrypt both versions.
• --add-key works and you are now able to generate subkeys.
• It is now possible to generate ElGamal keys in v4 packets to create valid OpenPGP keys.
• Some new features for better integration into MUAs.

GnuPG 0.2.18 released (1998-05-15)

• Add key generation for DSA and v4 signatures.
• Fixed a small bug in the key generation.
• New option --compress-algo 1 to allow the creation of compressed messages which are readable by PGP.

GnuPG 0.2.17 released (1998-05-04)

• More stuff for OpenPGP: Blowfish is now type 20, comment packets moved to a private type, packet type 3 now prepends conventional encryption packets.
• Fixed a passphrase bug and some others.

GnuPG 0.2.16 released (1998-04-28)

• Experimental support for TIGER/192.
• Standard cipher is now Blowfish with 128 bit key in OpenPGP's CFB mode.

GnuPG 0.2.15 released (1998-04-09)

• Fixed a bug with the old checksum calculation for secret keys.
• CAST5 works (using PGP's strange CFB mode).