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Introduction

Installation

New in Release 3.0.3

MD5, SHA-1, SHA-0 have a known bug using the update() method. With SHA-1 and SHA-0, this case is commented out in the Test*.java programs. It is used to add digest data in bulk, the relevant test is the million a's of the conformance set.

This release - 3.0.3 - is mostly a bug fix release. These features are now included:

• Tools: example programs demonstrating Cryptix:
  • Scar is an archiver that uses message digests and ciphers.
  • UnixCrypt is an emulation of the infamous Unix crypt(3) function.
  Tools are found in cryptix/tools.
• HMACs for all message digests have been added, according to RFC-2104 and RFC-2202.
• Cryptix 2.2 compatibility now includes:
  • message digests,
  • modes,
  • ancillary classes
  along with the ciphers.
• documentation:
  • Supported Algorithms shows all algorithms supported with useful details in colours.
• Bugs fixed in these areas:
  • RSA gave an occasional ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException which is now fixed. ElGamal has the same bug, but that's not fixed yet.
  • Triple DES data has now been checked against at least one other implementation.

These features were included in the previous release:

• PK: ElGamal over GF(p) is now included.
• Symmetric key algorithms: DES-EDE3 - Triple DES with 3 keys.
• message digests SHA1, SHA0, MD5. These new MDs are using old code and are missing Cloneable, and the update method doesn't currently work.
• Cryptix 2.2 cipher compatibility.
• Documentation: The FAQ and Guides.

What's *not* here

• compatibility with Java 1.2
• IJCE:
  • test devoted to IJCE that can run independant of Cryptix (java.security.IJCE_test or some Sun standard name?)
• testing:
  • Some of the Test* programs do not correctly exit, so failures are not detected.
  • util/testjar.sh produces guess-code W95/NT batch scripts in auto/testjar.bat.
• Cryptix 2.2 compatibility:
  • RSA
  is still to be done.
• Native libraries are not currently included.
• PGP is not here at all
• Cryptix has only been compiled and run with Sun-sourced compilers and JVMs. Specifically, there is a compilation error with Guavac. Other non-Sun tools have not been tried yet.
• Javadoc is distributed without images.

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Copyright and License

This release of Cryptix is covered by the Cryptix General License 'except for the RPK provider, which is covered by the Cryptix Limited License' .