Updated: libgcrypt-devel/20 1.12.4 - GnuPG cryptography library

Cygwin libgcrypt Maintainer Brian.Inglis@SystematicSW.ab.ca
Mon Sep 14 09:23:01 GMT 2026


Libgcrypt is a general purpose cryptography library used for GnuPG2.

For more information see the project home page:

	https://gnupg.org/software/libgcrypt/

The following packages have been upgraded in the Cygwin distribution:

- libgcrypt-devel	1.12.4
- libgcrypt20		1.12.4

For changes since the previous Cygwin release see below or after
installation read /usr/share/doc/libgcrypt/NEWS;
for complete details of changes after installation read
/usr/share/doc/libgcrypt/ChangeLog.

	https://dev.gnupg.org/T8417


2026-09-11	1.12.4

Bug fixes:

- Fix build problem with some compiler versions related to SM4 instructions.
- Fix padding in cSHAKE found by NIST ACVP conformance vectors.
- Fix RSA PSS handling of huge salt lengths.
- Validate the length of hashed input for RSA PSS.
- Improve RSA OAEP decoder correctnes by validating an all-zero padding.



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