Re: ID#:11919 JDC Feedback

Jan Luehe (luehe@laguna.eng.sun.com)
Thu, 19 Nov 1998 13:41:02 -0800 (PST)

Markus:

> > Feedback: Dear Sir or Madam !
> >
> > We are a computer science institute at a german
> > university (TU Darmstadt). We would like to start a
> > student project for writing provider software for
> > JCA and JCE. So far as I can see the classes necessary
> > for implementing a JCA provider are available in
> > JDK1.2, but the classes necessary for implementing
> > a JCE provider are only available for US citizens and
> > Canadians in JCE1.2.
> >
> > Is there a possibility that we obtain the JCE
> > classes that are necessary to implement provider
> > classes ?
> >
> > What are the future plans for JCE ? Will JCE always
> > be available only for use inside the USA and Canada ?

Please see the announcement below of a clean room implementation
of JCE 1.2 by a company in Australia. They also make source
code available.

Sun is also looking at providing an exportable version of JCE
in the future.

Jan

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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 16:42:08 +1100
From: Bernard Leach <leachbj@aba.net.au>
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Subject: ABA releases JCE crypto package
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ABA releases JCE crypto package
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The ABA JCE is a clean room implementation of the Java Cryptography
Extension (JCE) API as defined by Sun Microsystems, plus a provider
of underlying crypto algorithms.

This JCE is based on the early access beta2 version of the JCE as
available from the Java Developer Connection early access area.

JDK 1.02, 1.1 and 1.2(fcs) compatible versions are available
including complete source code.

See http://www.aba.net.au/solutions/crypto/jce.html for more
information!

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Bernard Leach                    Australian Business Access Pty Ltd.
leachbj@aba.net.au               http://www.aba.net.au/people/leachbj/