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Cryptix JCE for Java 1.4 Released

Posted by michael on from the java-plus-crypto-equals-good dept.

Yoda2 writes "A new snapshot of the Cryptix Java Cryptography Extensions (JCE) API was released on the Cryptix.org site yesterday. You can download the file here. Among other things, this finally allows for PGP encryption/decryption of files from the Java JDK 1.4 when used in conjunction with Cryptix OpenPGP."

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  1. Since my submission... by Yoda2 · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Cryptix site was actually updated since my submission to announce an updated snapshot of OpenPGP. You can download it here.

  2. Re:What about BouncyCastle by OttoM · · Score: 2, Informative
    Make that 1.4. I hit submit too soon by accident.

    What I meant to say is that until now, Cryptix implements the 1.1 version of JCE. This version was never offcially released by Sun. Any decent JCE provider should implement the 1.2 version of the JCE. Luckily Cryptix now seems to to this, after a long period of little activity.

  3. Re:What about BouncyCastle by JohnA · · Score: 3, Informative
    Actually, I was referring to the JCE implementation as well as the provider implementation. According to the release page, their clean room JCE doesn't run under JDK 1.4. Cryptix provides a JCE implementation that runs under 1.4, as well as their provider.

    I was under the impression that the BouncyCastle license was less than free, but I was mistaken. It is a great package, and it's good to know that there are a variety of open implementations of strong crypto under Java.