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The Legion of the Bouncy Castle

Here at the Bouncy Castle, we believe in encryption. That's something that's near and dear to our hearts. We believe so strongly in encryption, that we've gone to the effort to provide some for everybody, and we've now been doing it for over 10 years!

The Bouncy Castle Crypto APIs consist of the following:

  • A lightweight cryptography API for Java and C#.

  • A provider for the Java Cryptography Extension and the Java Cryptography Architecture.

  • A clean room implementation of the JCE 1.2.1.

  • A library for reading and writing encoded ASN.1 objects.

  • A light weight client-side TLS API.

  • Generators for Version 1 and Version 3 X.509 certificates, Version 2 CRLs, and PKCS12 files.

  • Generators for Version 2 X.509 attribute certificates.

  • Generators/Processors for S/MIME and CMS (PKCS7/RFC 3852).

  • Generators/Processors for OCSP (RFC 2560).

  • Generators/Processors for TSP (RFC 3161).

  • Generators/Processors for OpenPGP (RFC 2440).

  • A signed jar version suitable for JDK 1.4-1.6 and the Sun JCE.

The lightweight API works with everything from the J2ME to the JDK 1.6 and there is also an API in C# providing equivalent functionality for most of the above.

For further details have a look in either our Java project pages or our C# project pages where you can find downloads, mailing lists, and other resources.

If you want to provide feedback, offers of jobs (or more importantly beer) directly to the members of The Legion then please use feedback-crypto@bouncycastle.org


 
 
 
 

News

C# Release 1.6.1 is now out!

Monday 8th February

This is a minor bug fix and clean up release, largely to resolve thir d party packaging issues. PSS signatures have been added to CMS and the release has also been reviewed to eliminate possible timing attacks on algorithms such a s GCM and CCM mode.

If you are interested you can find it at our C# pages.

Java Release 1.45 is now available for download.

Wed 13th January

This release adds support EC MQV to the light weight and CMS/SMIME libraries. In addition to that OpenPGP now supports UTF-8 in file names for literal data, EC keys are now serialisable, and the provider now makes use of a privileged block for constructing the provider table. ASN.1 processing has been reviewed to further reduce the likelihood of OutOfMemory errors for badly corrupted streams, and use of constant time comparisons have been introduced to remove the possibility of timing attacks in several areas such as with cipher modes like GCM and CCM.

For more details go to our latest releases page, to download the new version and see the release notes

You can also find the latest versions on one of our mirrors:

The Bouncy Castle Wiki is now up.

Wednesday 1st November

We now have a wiki for providing additional documentation. You can find it at http://www.bouncycastle.org/wiki.

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