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We are pleased to announce the availability of Libgcrypt 1.2.1.

Since this is a bugfix release, it does not include any new features.

Complete source packages:

ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.2.1.tar.bz2 (756k)
ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.2.1.tar.bz2.sig
ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.2.1.tar.gz (939k)
ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.2.1.tar.gz.sig

Patch against version 1.2.0:

ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.2.0-1.2.1.diff.gz (256k)

Mirrors are listed at http://www.gnupg.org/download/mirrors.html.

SHA1 sums are:

29d3939af1bb6866c9244e98d8c0995eea0bcb78 libgcrypt-1.2.1.tar.bz2
8627d483e26e73b4cfabb4807ae8423875c37cda libgcrypt-1.2.1.tar.gz
ba16ffacf00a29bf7e331db62b2f934c8b6795d7 libgcrypt-1.2.0-1.2.1.diff.gz

Noteworthy changes:

* updated for Automake 1.9,
* made the code try to lock secure memory pool not only when running as
root,
* fixed type usage in Serpent,
* made the code mix the PID into the entropy pool for better protection
after a fork,
* fixed memory leak in RSA.
* fixed alignment problems in Rijndael,
* fixed memory leak in gcry_pk_sign(),
* fixed broken pointer access in gcry_ac_open(),
* updated the documentation,
* fixed several other bugs.

Happy hacking.

--
Moritz Schulte