Re: FlexiProvider: an open source cryptography provider for the JCA/JCE

Martin Döring wrote:
> With this email we would like to introduce the FlexiProvider, an open
> source cryptography service provider for the Java Cryptography
> Architecture and Extensions (JCA/JCE). The current version 1.1.5p6 is
> compatible with all Java versions from 1.2 up to 1.5. The FlexiProvider
> has been developed at the cryptography and computer algebra research
> group of Professor Johannes Buchmann at Darmstadt university of
> technology, Germany. It currently includes the following algorithms:
>
> Asymmetric Ciphers
>
> * ElGamal
> * RSA-OAEP as specified in PKCS#1 version 2.1
> * ECIES as specified in IEEE P1363a
>
> Symmetric Ciphers
>
> * AES (Rijndael)
> * DESede (TripleDES) as specified in FIPS 46-3
> * PBE
> * RC2, RC5, RC6
> * Camellia
> * IDEA
> * MARS
> * SAFER+, SAFER++
> * Serpent
> * Twofish
>
> Key exchange algorithms
>
> * ECSVDPDH, ECSVDPDH-C as specified in SEC1,2
>
> Pseudo-random number generators
>
> * BBS (Blum-Blum-Shoup)
> * ECPRNG as proposed by Kaliski
>
> Signature algorithms
>
> * DSA as specified in FIPS 186-2
> * RSASSA-PSS as specified in PKCS#1 version 2.1
> * ECDSA as specified in IEEE 1363
> * ECNR as specified in IEEE 1363
>
> Hash functions
>
> * MD4
> * MD5
> * RIPEMD-128, RIPEMD-160, RIPEMD-256, RIPEMD-320
> * SHA1, SHA256, SHA283, SHA512
> * Tiger

   SHA283? Should that be SHA384?

   Users would benefit from a programmatically available list of
supported algorithms, for instance something like

public String[] supported(String type) {
   if ("java.security.MessageDigest".equals(type)) {
     return new String[]{"MD4", "MD5", "RIPEMD-128", "RIPEMD-160",
"RIPEMD-256", "RIPEMD-320", "SHA1", "SHA256", "SHA384", "SHA512", "Tiger"};
   }
   ...
}

--Mike Amling
Received on Thu Jan 19 03:45:03 2006