Re: Open source Java encryption code

Paul Rubin wrote:
> Mike Amling <nospam@nospam.com> writes:
>
>> Mostly because of export laws, the company I work for has published
>>some of the cryptography code we use in open source format, subject to
>>IIRC the Berkeley license. Feel free to read it, use it, or find fault
>>with it. The URL is http://www.rmcis.com/encryption/index.html.
>
>
> Aside from the elliptic curve stuff, what does this library do that
> JSSE doesn't?

   Forward secrecy?
   At the time it was first written, we wanted secure communications
with customers, some of whom were outside the USA, without making them
find, download or install a 128-bit JCE or anything else other than a
plain old JRE. I don't know if JSSE existed then. Another requirement
was that it run on Java 1.1.7. (There was a particular Unix box, that
was not going to have its OS upgraded, for which 1.1.7 was the most
advanced Java available.)

--Mike Amling
Received on Sat Oct 15 04:39:19 2005