GnuPG 2.1.8 发布，主要更新内容如下：
* gpg: Sending very large keys to the keyservers works again.
* gpg: Validity strings in key listings are now again translatable.
* gpg: Emit FAILURE status lines to help GPGME.
* gpg: Does not anymore link to Libksba to reduce dependencies.
* gpgsm: Export of secret keys via Assuan is now possible.
* agent: Raise the maximum passphrase length from 100 to 255 bytes.
* agent: Fix regression using EdDSA keys with ssh.
* Does not anymore use a build timestamp by default.
* The fallback encoding for broken locale settings changed
from Latin-1 to UTF-8.
* Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation.
* Various minor bug fixes.
GnuPG是一款邮件加密工具
未经加密的邮件很容易被不怀好意的偷窥者看到。如果对带有敏感信息的邮件进行加密和签名，就可以大大提高安全性。使用GNU Privacy Guard（GnuPG）就可以对邮件进行加密，当然你的邮件客户端也要提供相应的支持，如果你使用的是Mozilla Thunderbird，可以到http://enigmail.mozdev.org去下载Enigmail插件，对于Outlook客户端，也可以找到相应的插件。
软件详情：https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2015q3/000379.html
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