Libgcrypt 1.12.3 Released With Bug Fixes, Curve Alias, and Faster Crypto
FOSS Force, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
The GnuPG project's Libgcrypt 1.12.3 update brings bug fixes, a new curve alias, and cryptographic performance gains.
Christine Hall covers the release of Libgcrypt 1.12.3, the cryptographic library underpinning GnuPG and many Linux distributions' security tooling.
The update fixes several bugs, adds a new elliptic curve alias for easier configuration, and delivers faster cryptographic operations.
As a foundational library used across the open source security stack, even incremental Libgcrypt updates matter to distro maintainers and developers relying on it for encryption, signing, and hashing primitives in production systems.