Subject: [Classpathx-crypto] [ANN] GNU Crypto 1.0.0

From: "Raif S. Naffah" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 18:35:17 +1000

The GNU Crypto team is proud to announce the release of the first
public version of the gnu.crypto library.

GNU Crypto, part of the GNU ClasspathX project, released under
the aegis of GNU, is a 100% Java implementation of cryptographic
algorithms and tools, and includes a Java Cryptographic Provider
implementation to allow its use through the Java JCA framework
and APIs.

GNU Crypto includes, in addition to the now standard cryptographic
primitives (MD5, SHA-1, AES, etc.), implementations of new and
experimental cryptographic primitives and transforms such as
Universal Hash Algorithms (UMAC32, TMMH-16 v1), the Universal
Security Transform (UST), and others.  GNU Crypto also includes
implementations of some of the accepted algorithms from the (2nd
round) NESSIE (New European Schemes for Signatures, Integrity,
and Encryption) project, such as Anubis, Khazad, Whirlpool, etc.

More details on the rationale, and contents of the library can be
found on the project's home page at:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/classpathx/crypto/index.html>.  The
main download site for the deliverables is:
<ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnu-crypto/>.  A list of mirros -most
of which are synchronised daily- can be found at:
<http://www.gnupg.org/mirrors.html>.

GNU Crypto is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public
License, with the "library exception."

(Java is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All
other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of
their respective owners.)

cheers;
rsn

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From: Casey Marshall <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 17:55:48 -0700

A couple of points about the web-site:

1) The links at the top (most importantly the one that leads to the
    downloads section--which is at the bottom of the page!) don't
    lead to their "intended" targets! E.g. the downloads link is:

       <a href="#downloading" name="downloading">Downloads</a>

    which just scrolls the "Downloads" text to the top of the window
    (at least in Mozilla 1). The fix is to just remove (or change) the
    name="" attributes from the anchors at the top of the page.

2) In the "Reference Documentation" section, there could be links for
    Serpent and MD4. Similarly in the "Test Vectors" section for
    Serpent.

3) The cipherSpeed and hashSpeed tables should be qualified with how
    the programs were run (what JVM, what architecture, &c.).

Otherwise it looks good to me; nice work.

Raif S. Naffah wrote:
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Casey Marshall < [email-masked] > http://metastatic.org/

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From: "Raif S. Naffah" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 20:58:33 +1000

hello Casey,

Casey Marshall wrote:
> A couple of points about the web-site...

done.  the updated version will be visible as soon as the page will get 
synchronised (within the next 24-h).  you can alway inspect the CVS copy 
  at 
<http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/software/classpathx/crypto/crypto.html?rev=1.14&cvsroot=www.gnu.org&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup>

cheers;
rsn