Re: JCE specification

Sharon Liu (Sharon.Liu@Eng)
Thu, 4 Mar 1999 10:06:33 -0800 (PST)

Message-Id: <199903041806.KAA04660@shorter.eng.sun.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 10:06:33 -0800 (PST)
From: Sharon Liu <Sharon.Liu@Eng>
Subject: Re: JCE specification
To: java-security@java.Sun.COM, mark_webb@itd.sterling.com

Mark,

> I have tried to get info for the JCE 1.2 software specification and
> documentation, but your site would not allow me to download that
> information.

Since JCE is subject to export control, one cannot download JCE 1.2
software from outside of US and Canada at this time; but one should
be able to download the spec. An Australian company has a clean
room implementation of JCE. You can find more information at
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/earlyAccess/jdk12/providers.html.

If you are in US or Canada, you should be able to download the
JCE software and spec.

Please try to download again.

The algorithm you are interested in is not included in the default
JCE provider from Sun. You may want to write your own provider and
then plug it into the JCE framework.

The document "How to Implement a Provider for the Java Cryptography
Architecture" at
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/guide/security/HowToImplAProvider.html
should be helpful if you decide to write a JCE provider.

Sharon

> X-Sender: markw@199.4.254.4
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> To: java-security@java.sun.com
> Subject: JCE specification
>
> hello, my name is Mark Webb and I am trying to get information on a cipher
> that I am trying to 'port' from C to java. The cipher is called GOST
> 28147-89, written by Colin Plumb. I have tried to get info for the JCE 1.2
> software specification and documentation, but your site would not allow me
> to download that information. Do you know if there is a transform for this
> cipher algorithm, or know where I can get information for porting this
> algorithm to java, or even know if the code is available.
>
> the code is posted at :
http://www.docs.uu.se/~tv98hah/kryptering/source/gost.c
>
> thank you in advance for your help......
>
>
> Mark Webb
>
>