Casey Marshall released GNU Crypto 2.1.0. GNU Crypto provides free,
versatile, high-quality, and provably correct implementations of
cryptographic primitives and tools in the java programming language for
use by programmers and end-users. It can also be used as extension to
GNU Classpath as a JCE security crypto algorithm provider. For more info
see http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-crypto/
Casey also recently released a bugfix for Jessie 1.0.1 a Secure Sockets
Extension for programming network sockets with the Secure Socket Layer
(SSL). For more info see http://www.nongnu.org/jessie/
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I'm happy to announce the release of GNU Crypto 2.1.0. It should
appear on ftp.gnu.org and mirrors shortly.
GNU Crypto 2.1.0 represents, in the same tradition as the Linux
kernel, an "odd-numbered" major release, and is meant for active
development. This means that things in between 2.1 micro releases may
change wildly, in the spirit of developing the code further, to
eventually produce release 2.2, which will remain stable. 2.1.0 will
not depart that far from what was made available in 2.0, just a lot
has been added, so we don't expect existing applications using GNU
Crypto to need much revision.
There are some significant changes in this release, however:
* Building with GCJ, including producing native shared libraries,
is not currently supported. For bytecode generation, we need a
compiler that understands `-sourcepath.' Recent releases of GCJ
should be able to compile GNU Crypto's Jar file to native code, however.
* No Ant build.xml file is included in this release; this still
needs to be updated for changes to the system requirements.
* Many new algorithms have been added, including password-based
encryption, SSL and TLS padding schemes, the OMAC message
authentication code, the EAX encryption mode, the Fortuna and CSPRNG
pseudo-random number generators, and various key transform algorithms
for JCE support.
* A replacement for the `keytool' program is in development. A
version with some basic functions in place is included.
* The clean-room JCE, JAAS, JGSS, and SASL API's have been
removed, and are now required as a part of the system you are
targeting, meaning you will need a recent developer snapshot of GNU
Classpath, or will need a runtime that supports the 1.4 security
features, and has the SASL API introduced in 1.5.
* A partial implementation of NIST's PKITS X.509 test suite (there
is also an implementation of X.509 certificates, but in free runtimes
we suggest using the implementation included in GNU Classpath instead).
Binary and source releases are available from ftp.gnu.org, and all
GNU mirrors, in the directory 'gnu/gnu-crypto.'
Happy hacking!
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