# Re: Java Security and the GSS API

Marianne Mueller (mrm@Eng)
Mon, 18 Aug 1997 10:26:19 -0700

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    Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 10:26:19 -0700

    Message-Id: <199708181726.KAA09296@puffin.eng.sun.com>

    From: Marianne Mueller <mrm@Eng>

    To: chrispn@ibm.net

    Subject: Re: Java Security and the GSS API

Groups within and without Sun have talked about providing a layer on
top of GSS API, written in Java.

What we are doing in JavaSoft is the JCE, the Java Cryptography
Extension. A second early access version of that was published at a
conference last week, and we expect to put it on our web site soon.

We hope that the abstract, general java.security APIs can be layered
on top of a variety of providers, including but not limited to
existing cryptographic libraries that might be written in C or C++.

The JavaSoft default implementation is itself 100% Java.

The JCE is available for download only within the US or Canada. The
URL is http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/jce.

Marianne

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