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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.

The Bouncy Castle Crypto APIs for Java 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

Java Release 1.39 is now out!

Monday 31st March

This release adds certifications with user attributes for OpenPGP, CMS countersignature support and VMPC-MAC. In addition: speed improvements have been made to the ASN.1 package, the CertPath validator now covers a wider range of NIST validation tests, and an error in IV handling for SEED and Camellia in CMS has been fixed. Last but not least, as well as other bug fixes and enhancements, the signing certificate for the provider has been updated to one expiring in 2013.

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

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

C# Release 1.3 is now out!

Saturday 8th December 2007

Update to official release. Performance has been improved for ASN1, CMS, and BcpgInputStream now handles the maximum data block size. The VMPC algorithm has been added and a number of other bug fixes and enhancements have been made. See the release notes for details.

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

The Bouncy Castle Wiki is now up.

Wednesday 1st Novemember

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

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