* NEWS: Document new ways to enable MDC, and change in automatic

compression disabling.

* configure.ac: No such thing as the "none" random gather any longer.

3 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 77c66b6d8..58491e335 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2002-08-19  David Shaw  <[email protected]>
+
+	* NEWS: Document new ways to enable MDC, and change in automatic
+	compression disabling.
+
+	* configure.ac: No such thing as the "none" random gather any
+	longer.
+
 2002-08-08  David Shaw  <[email protected]>
 
 	* configure.ac: Add an --enable-tiger.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 99c763f89..182303bbb 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,19 @@
 Noteworthy changes in version 1.1.92
 -------------------------------------------------
 
+    * The use of MDCs have increased.  A MDC will be used if the
+      recipients directly request it, if the recipients have AES,
+      AES192, AES256, or TWOFISH in their cipher preferences, or if
+      the chosen cipher has a blocksize not equal to 64 bits
+      (currently this is also AES, AES192, AES256, and TWOFISH).
+
+    * GnuPG will no longer automatically disable compression when
+      processing an already-compressed file unless a MDC is being
+      used.  This is to give the message a certain amount of
+      resistance to the chosen-ciphertext attack while communicating
+      with other programs (most commonly PGP earlier than version 7.x)
+      that do not support MDCs.
+
     * The option --interactive has now the desired effect when
       importing keys.
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index bcc4a41c6..33bf4e5b8 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ dnl  Check for random module options
 dnl
 AC_MSG_CHECKING([which random module to use])
 AC_ARG_ENABLE(static-rnd,
-    [  --enable-static-rnd=[egd|unix|linux|none]  ],
+    [  --enable-static-rnd=[egd|unix|linux]  ],
 [use_static_rnd=$enableval], [use_static_rnd=default] )
 
 if test "$use_static_rnd" = no; then