GNU Crypto

Tue Jul 23 02:08:00 GMT 2002

Adam Megacz wrote:
> "Raif S. Naffah" <raif@fl.net.au> writes:
>>>beacuse it does not always follow the published interfaces of Sun, the 
>>library includes a sub-package (gnu.crypto.jce.*) that contains Adapters 
>>for allowing plugging the appropriate algorithms into a JCA/JCE 
>>implementation as a Security Provider (GnuCrypto)
>>> Yep, BC works the same way...
>> I dunno, it just strikes me as strange how there are so many seperate
> open source implementations of the same set of primitives... (RSA,
> RC4, MD5, SHA1, etc...).

i think the criterion to use is not what are the common algorithms but 
what are the non-common ones. the "usual" algorithms (MD5, SHA, RSA, 
etc.) are there to ensure interoperability with a JDK.
when i started this project BC, Cryptix and others were all there; but 
unlike this project, they are not GNU --may be that was the reason why 
this project was accepted as a GNU one?
in any case, the sources are there for whoever/whatever project may 
benefit from it.
cheers;
rsn