# SSL / JCE info

Brett Connor (bconnor@sahba.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 24 Sep 1997 18:38:54 +0100

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    Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 18:38:54 +0100

    From: Brett Connor <bconnor@sahba.demon.co.uk>

    To: java-security@web2.javasoft.com

    Subject: SSL / JCE info

Hi,

I emailed you a short while ago saying I could not find any info, and
now I've just tripped over your hypermail archive - Mb's of info!

This is very useful, but now I have a headache as well as not a clear
picture. My understanding is now this:

* JCE will never be available outside of US in any form and so is to be
ignored.
* SSL may be available outside of the US, possibly in different forms,
possibly included in some form in a JDK version.

Here I have seen ambiguous / conflicting info, some saying a 'weak'
version may be available and some saying even the API's are not
available.

My hope is that either the JDK will provide some way of handling
encrypted data or at least a standard API that can be implemented by 3rd
parties outside of USA. Although we are an American company our products
will be used on the internet and thus available everywhere (surely this
applies to just about everyone - why does JCE even exist?), but I want
to stay as close as possible to standard Java.

Thanks for you help

Brett Connor

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