Welcome

Welcome to the home of the Legion of the Bouncy Castle Java cryptography APIs.

The Legion of the Bouncy Castle

The Bouncy Castle Crypto APIs for Java consist of the following:

  • A lightweight cryptography API.

  • 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.

Except where otherwise stated, software produced by this site is covered by the following license.

Looking for something not listed? Have a look at the projects listed on our resources page.

Keep in touch!

For those who are interested, there are two mailing lists for participation in this project. To subscribe use the links below. (To unsubscribe, replace subscribe with unsubscribe in the message body)

announce-crypto-request@bouncycastle.org with subscribe in the message body. This mailing list is for new release announcements only, general subscribers cannot post to it.

dev-crypto-request@bouncycastle.org with subscribe in the message body. This mailing list is for discussion of development of the package. This includes bugs, comments, requests for enhancements, questions about use or operation.

NOTE:You need to be subscribed to send mail to the above mailing list.

A searchable archive of the dev mailing list is accessible off the mailing lists page.

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

Release 1.41 is now available for download.

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:

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