Jon Eaves
2014-07-28 11:55:23 UTC
Release 1.51 is now out.
This release adds further performance improvements for EC based algorithms (particularly SEC Fp curves), as well as adding
automatic EC point validation for decoded inputs and multiplier outputs. Client-auth is now supported by the D/TLS APIs, random
seeking support has been added for some lightweight ciphers and BSI plain ECDSA has been added. RFC 5469 key wrapping for AES
has been added, full support for ECDH has been added to the OpenPGP APIs, and Locale based date handling has been added to the
ASN.1 API. Support for random seeking has been added to some light weight stream cipher implementations and block cipher modes.
In addition a number of other improvements have been made and a number of bugs have been fixed.
Note: this release has seen a further clean out of deprecated methods with the OpenPGP API being the main candidate. In
association with the addition of random seeking ciphers the return values on a couple of methods have also changed in the
lightweight API, so we recommend compiling against this release before trying to use it.
For more details go to our latest releases page:
http://www.bouncycastle.org/latest_releases.html
And for those who like living on the bleeding edge, the betas for future releases can be downloaded from:
http://www.bouncycastle.org/betas/
As always we are grateful to the people and organisations who have contributed/donated to the project and you can find the
updated list at http://www.bouncycastle.org/contributors.html We would also like to thank holders of Crypto Workshop support
contracts as an additional 30 hours of time was contributed back to this release through left over consulting time provided as
part of the support agreements.
If you are interested in donating to the project, you can find the details on how to donate via PayPal or Bitcoin, at:
https://www.bouncycastle.org/donate
If you prefer to use direct bank transfer please feel free to discuss it with us by contacting us at office-***@public.gmane.org and
we'll be happy help. The Legion of the Bouncy Castle is a registered Australian charity based in the State of Victoria, Australia.
If you wish to sponsor specific work on Bouncy Castle or get commercial support for the APIs please contact us at Crypto
Workshop ( http://www.cryptoworkshop.com )
Remember, you can also follow this project on Facebook ( https://www.facebook.com/legionofthebouncycastle ), Google+ (
https://plus.google.com/+BouncycastleOrgAPIs/posts ) and/or Twitter ( https://twitter.com/bccrypto ).
Finally, for users of the maven repositories, 1.51 should start appearing in the next 24 hours.
This release adds further performance improvements for EC based algorithms (particularly SEC Fp curves), as well as adding
automatic EC point validation for decoded inputs and multiplier outputs. Client-auth is now supported by the D/TLS APIs, random
seeking support has been added for some lightweight ciphers and BSI plain ECDSA has been added. RFC 5469 key wrapping for AES
has been added, full support for ECDH has been added to the OpenPGP APIs, and Locale based date handling has been added to the
ASN.1 API. Support for random seeking has been added to some light weight stream cipher implementations and block cipher modes.
In addition a number of other improvements have been made and a number of bugs have been fixed.
Note: this release has seen a further clean out of deprecated methods with the OpenPGP API being the main candidate. In
association with the addition of random seeking ciphers the return values on a couple of methods have also changed in the
lightweight API, so we recommend compiling against this release before trying to use it.
For more details go to our latest releases page:
http://www.bouncycastle.org/latest_releases.html
And for those who like living on the bleeding edge, the betas for future releases can be downloaded from:
http://www.bouncycastle.org/betas/
As always we are grateful to the people and organisations who have contributed/donated to the project and you can find the
updated list at http://www.bouncycastle.org/contributors.html We would also like to thank holders of Crypto Workshop support
contracts as an additional 30 hours of time was contributed back to this release through left over consulting time provided as
part of the support agreements.
If you are interested in donating to the project, you can find the details on how to donate via PayPal or Bitcoin, at:
https://www.bouncycastle.org/donate
If you prefer to use direct bank transfer please feel free to discuss it with us by contacting us at office-***@public.gmane.org and
we'll be happy help. The Legion of the Bouncy Castle is a registered Australian charity based in the State of Victoria, Australia.
If you wish to sponsor specific work on Bouncy Castle or get commercial support for the APIs please contact us at Crypto
Workshop ( http://www.cryptoworkshop.com )
Remember, you can also follow this project on Facebook ( https://www.facebook.com/legionofthebouncycastle ), Google+ (
https://plus.google.com/+BouncycastleOrgAPIs/posts ) and/or Twitter ( https://twitter.com/bccrypto ).
Finally, for users of the maven repositories, 1.51 should start appearing in the next 24 hours.