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Re: GNU Crypto
From: |
Adam Megacz |
Subject: |
Re: GNU Crypto |
Date: |
22 Jul 2002 10:55:49 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.7 |
"Raif S. Naffah" <address@hidden> 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. They implemented all the primitives
according to their own API, then wrote a security provider to act as
an adapter.
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...).
- a
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Re: GNU Crypto, Mark Wielaard, 2002/07/21