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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 1.41 is now out!

Thursday 2nd October

This release adds a faster and smaller version of Camellia. The ECDSA implementation is now compliant with X9.62-2005, OpenPGP, S/MIME, and CMS now support passing of providers as well as provider names, S/MIME handles a wider range of special cases for signature verification and range of other improvements have been made to the J2ME, CMS, S/MIME and OpenPGP APIs. In addition a regression from 1.38 for handling PKIXCertPathCheckers on intermediate certificates is fixed.

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:

C# Release 1.4 is now out!

Friday 8th August 2008

GCM mode has been added, ASN.1 libs now support high tag numbers, the CMS API now supports countersignatures, and the OpenPGP APIs supports certifications associated with user attributes. A number of bugs have also been fixed, including some associated with EAX mode, IV handling for SEED and Camellia in CMS, and creation of very large streams using the default constructor for BcpgOutputStream. See the release notes for further 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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