Am 04.05.2012 21:24, schrieb Jonathan Levinson:
> I find that I don't have to set up Bouncy Castle to get "-u password"
> encryption to prompt for a password.  Can anyone else confirm, that
> with JDK 1.6, Bouncy Castle is not needed, or does FOP apply a very
> weak encryption unless Bouncy Castle or some other RC4 provider is
> used?

The Bouncy Castle Library was mandatory with JDK 1.3, which had only
a very rudimentary crypto implementation. IIRC Java 1.4 already had a
RC4 implementation. I don't think Bouncy Castle is still necessary for
standard PDF encryption tasks.

J.Pietschmann


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