Bouncy Castle?

Cantor, Scott cantor.2 at osu.edu
Thu May 15 09:58:38 EDT 2014


On 5/15/14, 12:18 AM, "Brent Putman" <putmanb at georgetown.edu> wrote:
>
>But I did want to note for the record that we absolutely are using BC
>classes, actually now more than in the past. In v2 we were mostly just
>using some ASN.1 stuff from them.  However, in v3 now we're using
>cryptacular for the key and cert decoding.  That is AFAIK 100% based on
>the BC library - using the BC API directly, not using the JCA Security
>provider architecture.  So going forward most or all of our keys and
>certs will be BC impl classes.  So if you just saw a
>org.bouncycastle.something class in the stack trace, that's not
>necessarily unexpected.

This seemed more than just that, but it's possible they just share code
underneath in a way that made it look like this.

-- Scott




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