News 2003

On this page you'll find all the news in reverse chronological order of year 2003.

A news list of year 2002 is also available.

GnuPG 1.2.4 released (2003-12-24)

We are pleased to announce the availability of a new stable GnuPG release: Version 1.2.4. The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is... [more]

GnuPG 1.3.4 released (development) (2003-11-27)

The latest release from the development branch of GnuPG is ready for public consumption. This is a branch to create what will... [more]

GnuPG 1.2.3 patch to remove ElGamal signing keys (2003-11-27)

David Shaw wrote a patch against GnuPG 1.2.3 to disable the ability to create signatures using the ElGamal sign+encrypt... [more]

GnuPG's ElGamal signing keys compromised (2003-11-27)

A severe problem with ElGamal sign+encrypt keys has been found. This leads to a full compromise of the private key. Fortunately... [more]

Libgcrypt 1.1.44 released (2003-11-01)

We are pleased to announce version 1.1.44 of Libgcrypt, a general purpose cryptography library based on... [more]

RISC OS port (2003-10-28)

The Download section now includes a link to Stefan Bellon's page who ported GnuPG to the RISC OS platform.

GPA 0.7.0 released (2003-10-22)

We are pleased to announce the release of GPA 0.7.0. GPA is a graphical frontend for the GNU Privacy Guard... [more]

GnuPG 1.3.3 released (development) (2003-10-10)

The latest release from the development branch of GnuPG is ready for public consumption. This is a branch... [more]

HTTP access to FTP server dismissed (2003-09-22)

Because the HTTP protocol has a couple of problems compared to FTP when transmitting large files, we decided to dismiss this service for our server. All the files are thus only available from ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/ via FTP.

A Practical Introduction to GPG in Windows (2003-08-22)

The documentation section now contains a new guide from Brendan Kidwell which will hopefully help out Windows users who couldn't get the thing to work.

GnuPG one-two-three released (2003-08-22)

We are pleased to announce the availability of a new stable GnuPG release: Version 1.2.3... [more]

Libgcrypt 1.1.42 released (2003-07-31)

We are pleased to announce version 1.1.42 of Libgcrypt, a general purpose cryptography library... [more]

GnuPG 1.2.3 second release candidate (2003-07-30)

We are pleased to announce the availability of the second release candidate for GnuPG 1.2.3... [more]

OpenPGP Smartcards (2003-07-07)

The new OpenPGP smartcards for GnuPG will be shown the first time at the LinuxTag , Europe's largest GNU/Linux exhibition (booth G24).

GnuPG Keysigning Party HOWTO (2003-06-16)

Documentation section can now count a new entry among its HOWTOs. It is a valuable source of information for understanding and organizing a GnuPG keysigning party .

GnuPG 1.3.2 released (2003-05-27)

The latest release from the development branch of GnuPG is ready for public consumption. The more GnuPG-familiar user is encouraged try this release... [more]

Key validity bug in GnuPG 1.2.1 and earlier (2003-05-04)

As part of the development of GnuPG 1.2.2, a bug was discovered in the key validation code. This bug causes keys with more than one user ID... [more]

GnuPG 1.2.2 released (2003-05-03)

We are pleased to announce the availability of a new stable GnuPG release: Version 1.2.2... [more]

GnuPG.org/(it) 1.0 (2003-04-23)

Version 1.0 of this site's Italian translation has been released. - È stata rilasciata la versione 1.0 della traduzione italiana di questo sito.

New revision of GPH French translation (2003-04-17)

Thanks to Jean-francois for the new French revision of The GNU Privacy Handbook .

The No-War banner (2003-04-08)

Recently, a no-war banner has been added to the site. Because not all of us at GnuPG.org agreed on it, we moved it to the bottom of the page. We invite you to read more on our mailing-list. [more]

GnuPG.org/(es) 0.9 (2003-02-19)

Ha visto la luz la versión 0.9 de la traducción al castellano de este sitio. - Version 0.9 of this site spanish translation has been released.

GPA 0.6.1 released (2003-02-03)

We are pleased to announce the release of GPA 0.6.1 [more]

Libgcrypt 1.1.12 released (2003-01-20)

I am pleased to announce a new Beta version of Libgcrypt, GNU's implementation of basic crypto functions. Libgcrypt is a general... [more]