Donate to support the Bouncy Castle APIs

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Supporting Bouncy Castle is now a substantial effort, the Java API is now over 300,000 lines, the C# one well past 140,000. There are more standards being published every day, and most of the old ones are getting revised. What's more we are trying to constantly monitor for and identify vulnerabilities, as well as taking time out to review contributed code so that the project continues to be a community based effort as well as an Open Source one. Finally, we would really like to be able to properly maintain certifications for versions of Bouncy Castle appropriately certified for FIPS and other similar standards.

Certifications such as FIPS are quite expensive, reading standards documents in a lot of cases requires a substantial investment in coffee just to stay awake for the process, let alone for doing the actual work, and then there's time. There's a lot the core developers would like to do on Bouncy Castle, but we lack the resources. Our main focus at the moment though is on certifications. Certifications really do matter, if you're a developer, odds are if you keep working in this area you'll need to use a certified library one day, so you can think of donating to this effort as a good way to help broaden the areas you can apply your skills. If you're an end user, there's also a good chance you may end up talking to an organisation which insists on you're applications being certified with FIPS are a similar standard. Likewise, if you're trying to develop and sell an application, not having a FIPS certified library is going to be a significant barrier to entry in a number of markets - donating will allow us to help fix this as well. Finally, the certification efforts do have a positive effect on the quality of all the Bouncy Castle libraries.

Having done the original releases for our Java FIPS module and our C# FIPS module we are now working towards providing updates. FIPS 140-2 is still evolving and already standards are being added for Format Preserving Encryption as well as new algorithms around the SHA-3 message digest and the SHAKE expandable output functions. If you are interested in early access to the ongoing work on either FIPS project, consider getting a support contract through Crypto Workshop which will give you membership of our FIPS early access program, otherwise please considering donating to help us keep work on the project going and to enable us to keep these libraries Free, Open Source, and Maintained!

All donors will be given the option of being included on an honor roll if they wish. If you would like to donate a "large amount" and would like something more in terms of acknowledgement, or you prefer to use direct bank transfer please feel free to discuss it with us by contacting us at office@bouncycastle.org

There is plenty more to do! So your donation will make a difference. So please contact us office@bouncycastle.org about support or donation or choose below, and please spread the word about this. Thanks!

News: November 2nd, 2018. With BC FIPS 1.0.2 Java now going in for testing we have exhausted our current pool of donations. We are now collecting for the certification of the 2.0.0 release and need to raise at least 45,000 USD to cover the cost of the lab fees and the NIST recovery fee.

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