JCE : Java Glossary

Protocols Supported

1. AES
2. Blowfish
3. CBC (Cipher Block Chaining mode)
4. DES
5. DES3
6. DESede
7. Diffie-Hellman(DH)
8. DSA (Digital Signature Algorithm)
9. ECB (Electronic Codebook mode)
10. IDEA
11. Md5
12. Rc2
13. Rc4
14. Rc5
15. RSA (signature and encryption)
16. SHA-0: 160-bit, obsolete
17. SHA-1: 160-bit
18. SHA-256
19. SHA-384
20. SHA-512
21. SSL
22. TLS
23. Twofish

Implementations

Americans had a silly law that code written in the USA that does strong encryption cannot be exported outside the USA and Canada, even though the algorithms are published. This has had the effect of stimulating European and Australians to provide such software which is immune to the restriction, taking business away from American companies. It was repealed circa 2000, but various other countries have restrictions on importing full strength encryption. The JCE that comes with the JDK (Java Development Kit) is crippled. To get full strength encryption, you need to download and install the full strength extension.

You can avoid this hassle. BouncyCastle.org is located in Australia.

The ABA (Australian Business Access) provided a clean room implementation of JCE 1.2, including a cryptographic service provider, for international use. ABA seems to have disappeared.

BouncyCastle, another Australian group, has a free cleanroom implementation of JCE 1.2.1.

An Austrian university foundation with the unlikely name of SIC-IAIK-TUG (Stiftung Secure Information and Communication Technologies Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications) has produced a large commercial JCE implementation that includes SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and AES (Advanced Encryption Standard).

Discovering Installed Providers

Where to Find the Classes

Unlimited Strength Encryption

Books

Book referral for Beginning Cryptography with Java

	recommend book⇒Beginning Cryptography with Java
	by	David Hook	978-0-7645-9633-9	paperback
	birth	1962-04-19 age:56	978-0-471-75701-6	eBook
	publisher	Wrox
	published	2005-08-19
Covers JCA, symmetric and asymmetric key encryption in Java, message authentication codes, padding, ASN.1, certificate revocation, CMS, SSL and S/MIME and the BouncyCastle provider. Unlike many books on the subject, this one is rich with sample code.
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Book referral for Java Cryptography

	recommend book⇒Java Cryptography
	by	Jonathan Knudsen	978-1-56592-402-4	paperback
	publisher	O’Reilly	978-1-4493-9061-7	eBook
	published	1998-05-01	B0043M4ZC0	kindle
JCE has evolved considerably since this book was published. It teaches you how to write secure programs using Java’s cryptographic tools. It includes the java.security package and the Java Cryptography Extensions (JCE). It discusses authentication, key management, public and private key encryption. How to implement ciphers, keys and other data-obscuring techniques in Java. Includes source for a provider of the ElGamal algorithm.
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