Re: GNU Crypto

["Raif S. Naffah" <raif at fl dot net dot au>]

Adam Megacz wrote:
> Nic Ferrier <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk> writes:
>
> > Eventually there will be a GNU Java JCA/JCE implementation using
> > these. By that time we will probably be delivering a comprehensive
> > GNU java platform.
>
> Hrm, is there a reason why the GNU Crypto project hasn't simply
> adopted the Bouncy Castle libraries (bouncycastle.org)? I've been
> using them for six months now and found them to be very high quality.
GNU Crypto is *not* a JCA/JCE implementation.  as is mentioned in its 
home page:

"...(GNU Crypto) aims at providing free, versatile, high-quality, and 
provably correct implementations of cryptographic primitives and tools 
in the Java programming language for use by programmers and end-users."

beacuse it does not always follow the published interfaces of Sun, the 
library includes a sub-package (gnu.crypto.jce.*) that contains Adapters 
for allowing plugging the appropriate algorithms into a JCA/JCE 
implementation as a Security Provider (GnuCrypto) --we ear-marked 
BouncyCastle, Cryptix and JDK1.4 JCA/JCE publishers for future integration.

(currently there are only Adapters for the *built-in* hash, PRNG and 
signature schemes.  Adapters for the javax.security interfaces and 
classes will come later.)


cheers;
rsn