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From: | Raif S. Naffah |
Subject: | Re: GNU Crypto |
Date: | Tue, 23 Jul 2002 19:07:43 +1000 |
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Adam Megacz wrote:
"Raif S. Naffah" <address@hidden> writes:beacuse it does not always follow the published interfaces of Sun, the library includes a sub-package (gnu.crypto.jce.*) that contains Adapters for allowing plugging the appropriate algorithms into a JCA/JCE implementation as a Security Provider (GnuCrypto)Yep, BC works the same way... I dunno, it just strikes me as strange how there are so many seperate open source implementations of the same set of primitives... (RSA, RC4, MD5, SHA1, etc...).
i think the criterion to use is not what are the common algorithms but what are the non-common ones. the "usual" algorithms (MD5, SHA, RSA, etc.) are there to ensure interoperability with a JDK.
when i started this project BC, Cryptix and others were all there; but unlike this project, they are not GNU --may be that was the reason why this project was accepted as a GNU one?
in any case, the sources are there for whoever/whatever project may benefit from it.
cheers; rsn
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