Re: JCE

Jan Luehe (Jan.Luehe@Eng)
Thu, 9 Oct 1997 15:26:48 -0700 (PDT)

Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 15:26:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jan Luehe <Jan.Luehe@Eng>
Subject: Re: JCE
To: java-security@web2.javasoft.com, jason@ancc.net

Jason:

> Can you use the current JCE with 1.1.4?

If "current" means JCE1.1, the answer is yes.

> Has there been any bug fixes
> since the original early access release of the JCE? If so, have they
> been released?

We have rewritten JCE. The new JCE (1.2) will be provided
as a Java extension to JDK1.2. A beta release of JDK1.2 will
be available very soon.

It includes:

DES (ECB, CBC, CFB, OFB)
DES-EDE (ECB, CBC, CFB, OFB)
PBE (PKCS#5 password-based encryption)
Diffie-Hellman key exchange

Check out

http://java.sun.com/security/JCE1.2/earlyaccess/index.html

for the new JCE APIs.

We are planning to release JCE1.2ea (early access) by the end of October.

Thanks,

Jan