What changed from 1.4.8 was the certificate encryption that needs the
CMS code from BouncyCastle. This CMS code depends on a lot of other
BouncyCastle code and it's not feasible to extract all this and include
it in iText. Furthermore, I also want to simplify PdfPKCS7 with the
BouncyCastle capabilities instead of doing all by hand and having
reports in the mailing list saying that some algorithm was not
recognized. The BouncyCastle jars will have to stay.
Paulo
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Paulo Soares
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 11:30 PM
> To: Post all your questions about iText here
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] bouncy castle (Paulo Soares)
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> I'll get back to you later on this.
>
> Paulo
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "robert engels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "itext iText here" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 6:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] bouncy castle (Paulo Soares)
>
>
> > Paulo,
> >
> > Maybe there is a better way.
> >
> > I have 2 motivating factors:
> >
> > 1. Limit the deployment size. The bouncy castle jars are as
> large as
> > the iText jar. Maybe a 'thin" BC can be distributed with
> iText that
> > only contains the ASN functions? Or just implement the ASN1
> functions
> > in iText?
> >
> > 2. Limit the outside dependencies. Since iText uses the BC api
> > directly, there might be compatibility problems in the
> future if the
> > BC api changes, yet other systems need the latest BC api. I
> am trying
> > to avoid Windows 'DLL Hell'.
> >
> > If the JCE does not cover needed "complex" operations that are
> > required, then I can see the need for using BC directly.
> But it seems
> > that most of these are fairly simple utility methods (if I
> understand
> > it correctly).
> >
> > Maybe if you were more specific about what is needed in BC that is
> > not available in JCE, I can work on writing that code.
> >
> > Robert
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