title: libgcrypt 1.8.3 (fix CVE-2018-0495)

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As per the GnuPG Project (1):
 "... mitigate a novel side-channel attack on ECDSA signatures and also bring fixes for a few other bugs"


gpg-agent --version

  gpg-agent (GnuPG) 2.2.8
  libgcrypt 1.8.3
  Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
  This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.



Erkan YILMAZ
  http://people.slitaz.org/~eyilmaz/blog/
  2018 June 13
  https://twitter.com/SliTazLinux/status/1006993319031865344



(1) https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2018q2/000426.html