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Post #1718845

2026-04-24 15:11 UTC

When looking at the changes towards the new 2.5.19 version of #GnuPG, there are many small things; like a way to use OCB for symmetric-only encryption, a few defect fixes and improvements. Not that exciting, but maintenance of the well known #LibrePGP, OpenPGPv4 and CMS capable crypto engine.... you may want to know anyhow. ;) https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2026q2/000504.html https://dev.gnupg.org/T7998 #GnuPG #EndtoEndCrypto #FreeSoftware

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  • @DD9JN@social.darc.de 2026-04-27 12:35

    @GnuPG The mentioning of OCB for symmetric encryption is misleading: We have this support for many years, the new option "use-ocb-sym" merely allows to switch to OCB for password-only encryption w/o forcing its use for public keys not claiming to support OCB; this is what the old option --force-ob would do.

    Open ##2069075