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Alien-GCrypt-1.6.5.0
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Security Advisories (1)
CVE-2021-40528 (2021-09-06)

The ElGamal implementation in Libgcrypt before 1.9.4 allows plaintext recovery because, during interaction between two cryptographic libraries, a certain dangerous combination of the prime defined by the receiver's public key, the generator defined by the receiver's public key, and the sender's ephemeral exponents can lead to a cross-configuration attack against OpenPGP.

NAME

Alien::GCrypt - Install and make available libgcrypt

VERSION

version 1.6.5.0

SYNOPSIS

use Alien::GCrypt;

my $cflags = Alien::GCrypt->cflags;
my $libs = Alien::GCrypt->libs;

DESCRIPTION

Alien::GCrypt installs the C library libgcrypt v1.6.5.

SEE ALSO

AUTHOR

Alex J. G. Burzyński <ajgb@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2016 by Alex J. G. Burzyński <ajgb@cpan.org>.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.