Re: JSECURITY Issue: JCE

Jan Luehe (luehe@laguna.eng.sun.com)
Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:11:51 -0700 (PDT)

Steffen:

> I'm doing my diploma thesis right now and I want to include a comparison of
the available JCE provider.
> I'm living outside the USA, so I'm not permited to download the SUN JCE.
> I would appreciate it, if you could tell me which cipher and message digest
algorithms the SUN JCE implements. I didn't find it yet.

The SunJCE provider implements the following algorithms:

Cipher: DES, Triple-DES, Blowfish (in ECB, CBC, CFB, OFB, and
PCBC modes),
Password-based encryption (according to PKCS#5)

KeyAgreement: Diffie-Hellman (between any number of parties)

MAC: HMAC-MD5, HMAC-SHA1

Jan