Tool Release (GNU Privacy Guard), compliant with OpenPGP standards () and S/MIME, providing utilities for data encryption, working with digital signatures, key management, and access to public key repositories. Remember that the GnuPG 2.2 branch is positioned as a developing release, where new features continue to be added, while only corrective fixes are allowed in the 2.1 branch.
Key Changes:
- The ability to delete subkeys using the '--delete-key' option has been added;
- SHA-1 hashes have been replaced with SHA-256 when updating self-signed digital signatures using the '--quick-set-expire' or '--quick-set-primary-uid' options;
- Improved the selection of the image viewer used to display the photo embedded in the key;
- AES-192 is now used alongside SHA-384 to comply with RFC-6637 requirements;
- In dirmngr, the caching algorithm for WKD has been improved, and support for additional hashes has been added for OCSP, not just SHA-1;
- Executable files are now digitally signed in the Windows installation builds.
Source: opennet.ru
