The Legion of the Bouncy Castle Java CryptographyAPI provides a lightweight cryptography API inJava, a provider for the JCE and JCA, a clean-roomimplementation of the JCE 1.2.1, generators forVersion 1 and Version 3 X.509 certificates,generators for Version 2 X.509 attributecertificates, PKCS12 support, and APIs for dealingwith S/MIME, CMS, OCSP, TSP, OpenPGP, and TLS.Versions are provided for the J2ME, and JDK1.0-1.6.License: Freely DistributableChanges:
This release adds certifications with userattributes for OpenPGP, CMS countersignaturesupport, and VMPC-MAC. Speed improvements havebeen made to the ASN.1 package. The CertPathvalidator now covers a wider range of NISTvalidation tests. An error in IV handling for SEEDand Camellia in CMS has been fixed. Other bugfixes and enhancements were made. The signingcertificate for the provider has been updated toone expiring in 2013.