ANN: GNU Crypto 2.1.0 and Jessie 1.0.1

[Mark Wielaard]

Casey Marshall released GNU Crypto 2.1.0. GNU Crypto provides free,
versatile, high-quality, and provably correct implementations of
cryptographic primitives and tools in the java programming language for
use by programmers and end-users. It can also be used as extension to
GNU Classpath as a JCE security crypto algorithm provider. For more info
see http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-crypto/

Casey also recently released a bugfix for Jessie 1.0.1 a Secure Sockets
Extension for programming network sockets with the Secure Socket Layer
(SSL). For more info see http://www.nongnu.org/jessie/ 

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> [GNU Crypto] GNU Crypto 2.1.0
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> Sun, 23 Oct 2005 16:12:18 -0700
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> I'm happy to announce the release of GNU Crypto 2.1.0. It should  
> appear on ftp.gnu.org and mirrors shortly.
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> GNU Crypto 2.1.0 represents, in the same tradition as the Linux  
> kernel, an "odd-numbered" major release, and is meant for active  
> development. This means that things in between 2.1 micro releases may  
> change wildly, in the spirit of developing the code further, to  
> eventually produce release 2.2, which will remain stable. 2.1.0 will  
> not depart that far from what was made available in 2.0, just a lot  
> has been added, so we don't expect existing applications using GNU  
> Crypto to need much revision.
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> There are some significant changes in this release, however:
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>   * Building with GCJ, including producing native shared libraries,  
> is not currently supported. For bytecode generation, we need a  
> compiler that understands `-sourcepath.' Recent releases of GCJ  
> should be able to compile GNU Crypto's Jar file to native code, however.
>   * No Ant build.xml file is included in this release; this still  
> needs to be updated for changes to the system requirements.
>   * Many new algorithms have been added, including password-based  
> encryption, SSL and TLS padding schemes, the OMAC message  
> authentication code, the EAX encryption mode, the Fortuna and CSPRNG  
> pseudo-random number generators, and various key transform algorithms  
> for JCE support.
>   * A replacement for the `keytool' program is in development. A  
> version with some basic functions in place is included.
>   * The clean-room JCE, JAAS, JGSS, and SASL API's have been  
> removed, and are now required as a part of the system you are  
> targeting, meaning you will need a recent developer snapshot of GNU  
> Classpath, or will need a runtime that supports the 1.4 security  
> features, and has the SASL API introduced in 1.5.
>   * A partial implementation of NIST's PKITS X.509 test suite (there  
> is also an implementation of X.509 certificates, but in free runtimes  
> we suggest using the implementation included in GNU Classpath instead).
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> Binary and source releases are available from ftp.gnu.org, and all  
> GNU mirrors, in the directory 'gnu/gnu-crypto.'
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> Happy hacking!
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