Adam Megacz wrote:
> "Raif S. Naffah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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