# Re: JCE status

Jan Luehe (Jan.Luehe@Eng)
Mon, 29 Sep 1997 17:40:42 -0700 (PDT)

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    Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 17:40:42 -0700 (PDT)

    From: Jan Luehe <Jan.Luehe@Eng>

    Subject: Re: JCE status

    To: java-security@web2.javasoft.com, bconnor@spinsoftware.com

Brett:

> I am unable to find any information on if / when Java will support
> encryption. There is some mention of JCE in a few places, but no API
> specs and no mention on whether it will see the light of day or not.

JCE1.2 will be provided as a Java extension package (tentative name:
javax.crypto).

The current API spec can be found under

http://java.sun.com/security/JCE1.2/earlyaccess/packages.html
There have been some minor changes to the spec since it was last
published (the biggest change probably being the package name
"javax.crypto" instead of "java.security").
The latest API spec will be published on October 8.

We are planning to go alpha by the end of October.

JCE1.2 comes with the (default) Sun provider, which supports:

DES (ECB, CBC, CFB, OFB)
DES-EDE (ECB, CBC, CFB, OFB)
PBE (Password-based encryption as defined in PKCS#5)
Diffie-Hellman

> If it is not going to be a version available outside the US then this
> obviously counts as not being supported.

Due to U.S. export regulations, JCE1.2 will ship as a U.S. domestic
version only.

> Some information on the plans and status for this would be very helpful
> for us planning our product development and strategy.

Hope this helps.

Jan

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