The Register reports that “OpenPGP and GnuPG are susceptible to a chosen-cyphertext attack which would allow an adversary capable of intercepting an encrypted message to use the intended recipient as an unwitting ‘decryption oracle.'”

C|Net’s News.com has the news about VA’s decision to move Sourceforge.net to IBM’s DB2. (VA owns NewsForge and Linux.com.)

Slashdot has a LinuxWorld roundup, including an overview from the BBC and a Wired.com story about Microsoft’s booth there.

The Register reports on Sun’s new Linux distro, which the story says is “essentially Red Hat Advanced Server — which Sun took a few jibes at yesterday.”

Timothy R. Butler writes: “Peter Bojanic is Vice President, Software Development of OEone Corp., a Hull, Québec company that develops the extremely easy to use HomeBase DESKTOP and SUITE software. Mr. Bojanic also serves as an associate staff member of the Mozilla.org project, creators of the Mozilla/Gecko engine that runs Netscape 6, Galeon, and OEone HomeBase DESKTOP. Peter kindly agreed to talk about OEone’s new product lineup and the Mozilla.org Project with OfB’s Timothy R. Butler (a mini-review of OEone HomeBase SUITE 1.5 is also included within). Read the interview at OfB.biz.”

pdajames writes: “It looks like the closed source people are gearing up their international lobbying efforts to stop governments in Europe and other areas from choosing open source. This article at ZDNet UK has more about the Initiative for Software Choice, a euphemism if I ever saw one. It’s backed by Microsoft among others.”

Marcin writes: “CryptoHeaven software v2.1 is available for immediate download from CryptoHeaven website. The new software can be installed directly over the previous version. Download the client front-end software
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Existing CryptoHeaven users running Windows can download the minimum update: http://www.cryptoheaven.com/Download/Files/CryptoH eaven-Setup-min.exe

What’s New:

• Improved support for ‘regular’ email.
• New HTML editor for composing rich text messages.
• International character support.
• Ability to change your existing CryptoHeaven user name.
• Ability to move encrypted private keys between your personal computer and CryptoHeaven servers.
• Fixed Mac OS X compatibility issues. The new version improves Max OS X support.
• Improved user interface.
• Numerous usability enhancements.
• Many other smaller changes and updates.

All CryptoHeaven users may now send and receive regular email with their CryptoHeaven account. To take advantage of this feature you must go to “Tools->Account Options” and select “Accept external e-mail.”

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ZDNET.co.uk: “VA Software and IBM will announce a software partnership on Tuesday, a move that highlights the tricky entanglements of the opposing open-source and proprietary programming philosophies.

VA Software will move its SourceForge repository of open-source software projects to a foundation of proprietary IBM software, the companies plan to announce at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco. At the same time, VA will promote use of IBM’s DB2 and WebSphere software for those employing a commercial version of the SourceForge collaborative programming software.”

“Red Hat will come out with a 64-bit version of its software for Hammer and ensure that its 32-bit version will work on the chip as well. The company will demonstrate a 32-bit version of its software running on a Hammer server at LinuxWorld on Tuesday.

Software makers and others have lined up behind Hammer since the beginning of the year. In April, Microsoft said it would tune Windows to run on Hammer, while German Linux distributor SuSE said in March that it would come out with software.” More at News.com.

ZDNET.co.uk: “Sun Linux 5.0, the operating system that will ship with the LX50 Linux servers, will be freely available for download – but don’t expect support unless you buy the hardware too.

As part of Sun’s move to introduce a budget Linux-based server, the company will also make available its own secure distribution of the open-source Linux operating system, for which it plans to provide full support.”