Java Release 1.73 is now available for download
2023-04-08
Bouncy Castle Java Release 1.73
This release is both targeting features and security. Review of the PQC work has been done and significant issues found have been addressed in the implementations. Several candidate algorithms from the NIST lightweight cryptography competition have been added including the finalist Ascon. Performance has been improved in existing PQC implementations, EdDSA, PEM parsing, and CRC24 and implementations of Blake2bp, Blake2sp, and HPKE (RFC 9180) have been added to the light-weight APIs.
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