Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 10:26:19 -0700
Message-Id: <199708181726.KAA09296@puffin.eng.sun.com>
From: Marianne Mueller <mrm@Eng>
To: chrispn@ibm.net
Subject: Re: Java Security and the GSS API
Groups within and without Sun have talked about providing a layer on
top of GSS API, written in Java.
What we are doing in JavaSoft is the JCE, the Java Cryptography
Extension. A second early access version of that was published at a
conference last week, and we expect to put it on our web site soon.
We hope that the abstract, general java.security APIs can be layered
on top of a variety of providers, including but not limited to
existing cryptographic libraries that might be written in C or C++.
The JavaSoft default implementation is itself 100% Java.
The JCE is available for download only within the US or Canada. The
URL is http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/jce.
Marianne