We are pleased to announce the availability of the first release candidate for the forthcoming 1.4.3 version of GnuPG:
ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/gnupg/gnupg-1.4.3rc1.tar.bz2 (2.9M) ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/gnupg/gnupg-1.4.3rc1.tar.bz2.sig SHA-1 checksums for the above files are: 6c2d5f65c2acde6eaeb1ae3a4bc9ae971f942126 gnupg-1.4.3rc1.tar.bz2 62f13c67d5a32bb9747db0da667e420e5391f1e7 gnupg-1.4.3rc1.tar.bz2.sig Note that this is only a release candidate, and as such is not intended for use on production systems. If you are inclined to help test, however, we would appreciate you trying this new version and reporting any problems. Noteworthy changes since 1.4.2: * If available, cURL-based keyserver helpers are built that can retrieve keys using HKP or any protocol that cURL supports (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, etc). If cURL is not available, HKP and HTTP are still supported using a built-in cURL emulator. To force building the old pre-cURL keyserver helpers, use the configure option --enable-old-keyserver-helpers. Note that none of this affects finger or LDAP support, which are unchanged. Note also that a future version of GnuPG will remove the old keyserver helpers altogether. * Implemented Public Key Association (PKA) trust sub model. This is an optional trust model on top of the standard ones. It make use of special DNS records and notation data to associate a mail address with an OpenPGP key. It is by default not used. To use it you need to set the new option --allow-pka-lookup and an appropriate trust-model. Also added new keyserver option auto-pka-retrieve which is enabled by default but only working if --allow-pka-lookup is also used. * When exporting subkeys, those specified with a key ID or fingerpint and the '!' suffix are now merged into one keyblock. * Added "gpg-zip", a program to create encrypted archives that can interoperate with PGP Zip. * Added support for signing subkey "back signatures". Requiring back signatures to be present is currently off by default, but will be changed to on by default in the future, once more keys contain the back signature. A new "backsign" command in the --edit-key menu can be used to update signing subkeys with back signatures. * The key cleaning options for --import-options and --export-options have been further polished. "import-clean" and "export-clean" replace the older import-clean-sigs/import-clean-uids and export-clean-sigs/export-clean-uids option pairs. * New "minimize" command in the --edit-key menu removes everything that can be removed from a key, rendering it as small as possible. There are corresponding "export-minimal" and "import-minimal" commands for --export-options and --import-options. * New --fetch-keys command to retrieve keys by specifying a URI. This allows direct key retrieval from a web page or other location that can be specified in a URI. Available protocols are HTTP and finger, plus anything that cURL supplies, if built with cURL support. Happy Hacking, David, Timo, Werner
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