We are proud to announce a new stable GnuTLS release: Version 2.8.1. GnuTLS is a modern C library that implements the standard network security protocol Transport Layer Security (TLS), for use by network applications. GnuTLS is developed for GNU/Linux, but works on many Unix-like systems and comes with a binary installer for Windows.
The GnuTLS library is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 (or later). The "extra" GnuTLS library (which contains TLS/IA support, LZO compression and Libgcrypt FIPS-mode handler), the OpenSSL compatibility library, the self tests and the command line tools are all distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3.0 (or later). The manual is distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3 (or later). The project page of the library is available at: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/ What's New ========== ** libgnutls: Fix crash in gnutls_global_init after earlier init/deinit cycle. Forwarded by Martin von Gagern <[email protected]> from <http://bugs.gentoo.org/272388>. ** libgnutls: Fix PKCS#12 decryption from password. The encryption key derived from the password was incorrect for (on average) 1 in every 128 input for random inputs. Reported by "Kukosa, Tomas" <[email protected]> in <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.network.gnutls.general/1663>. Getting the Software ==================== GnuTLS may be downloaded from one of the mirror sites or direct from <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/>. The list of mirrors can be found at <http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/download.html>. Here are the BZIP2 compressed sources (6.0MB): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-2.8.1.tar.bz2 http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-2.8.1.tar.bz2 Here are OpenPGP detached signatures signed using key 0xB565716F: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-2.8.1.tar.bz2.sig http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-2.8.1.tar.bz2.sig Note, that we don't distribute gzip compressed tarballs. In order to check that the version of GnuTLS which you are going to install is an original and unmodified one, you should verify the OpenPGP signature. You can use the command gpg --verify gnutls-2.8.1.tar.bz2.sig This checks whether the signature file matches the source file. You should see a message indicating that the signature is good and made by that signing key. Make sure that you have the right key, either by checking the fingerprint of that key with other sources or by checking that the key has been signed by a trustworthy other key. The signing key can be identified with the following information: pub 1280R/B565716F 2002-05-05 [expires: 2010-04-21] Key fingerprint = 0424 D4EE 81A0 E3D1 19C6 F835 EDA2 1E94 B565 716F uid Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> uid Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> sub 1280R/4D5D40AE 2002-05-05 [expires: 2010-04-21] The key is available from: http://josefsson.org/key.txt dns:b565716f.josefsson.org?TYPE=CERT Alternatively, after successfully verifying the OpenPGP signature of this announcement, you could verify that the files match the following checksum values. The values are for SHA-1 and SHA-224 respectively: b5fd364848709393d05def7e926caddd27169525 gnutls-2.8.1.tar.bz2 8d94ffd6d37d0251778718933a63848521ab64c4700588455bcaa372 gnutls-2.8.1.tar.bz2 Documentation ============= The manual is available online at: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/documentation.html In particular the following formats are available: HTML: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/manual/html_node/index.html PDF: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/manual/gnutls.pdf For developers there is a GnuTLS API reference manual formatted using the GTK-DOC tools: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/reference/gnutls-gnutls.html Community ========= If you need help to use GnuTLS, or want to help others, you are invited to join our help-gnutls mailing list, see: http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnutls If you wish to participate in the development of GnuTLS, you are invited to join our gnutls-dev mailing list, see: http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnutls-devel Windows installer ================= GnuTLS has been ported to the Windows operating system, and a binary installer is available. The installer contains DLLs for application development, manuals, examples, and source code. The installer uses libgpg-error v1.7, libgcrypt v1.4.4, libtasn1 v2.2, and GnuTLS v2.8.1. For more information about GnuTLS for Windows: http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/ The Windows binary installer and PGP signature: http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/gnutls-2.8.1.exe (15MB) http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/gnutls-2.8.1.exe.sig The checksum values for SHA-1 and SHA-224 are: 3ac9beb22da8b0301c432861a74717d319f28020 gnutls-2.8.1.exe b40ec214c8f251c9384ddbb3fb2c4d8ea9e746140414aa76b2793791 gnutls-2.8.1.exe A ZIP archive containing the Windows binaries: http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/gnutls-2.8.1.zip (5.3MB) http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/gnutls-2.8.1.zip.sig A Debian mingw32 package is also available: http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/mingw32-gnutls_2.8.1-1_all.deb (4.8MB) The checksum values for SHA-1 and SHA-224 are: e34a20b91fc8e35c3a04ae8089d73fa45bb62fa4 mingw32-gnutls_2.8.1-1_all.deb fc15cf1c37e7711d718e4b84739807d3498e3c0045c2cf9ce4bbdc23 mingw32-gnutls_2.8.1-1_all.deb Internationalization ==================== The GnuTLS library messages have been translated into Czech, Dutch, French, German, Malay, Polish, Swedish, and Vietnamese. We welcome the addition of more translations. Support ======= Improving GnuTLS is costly, but you can help! We are looking for organizations that find GnuTLS useful and wish to contribute back. You can contribute by reporting bugs, improve the software, or donate money or equipment. Commercial support contracts for GnuTLS are available, and they help finance continued maintenance. Simon Josefsson Datakonsult AB, a Stockholm based privately held company, is currently funding GnuTLS maintenance. We are always looking for interesting development projects. See http://josefsson.org/ for more details. The GnuTLS service directory is available at: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/commercial.html Happy Hacking, Simon
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