--- begin forwarded text Date: 23 Dec 1997 22:41:22 -0000 From: iang@systemics.com To: e$@vmeng.com Subject: Cryptix 3.0 - the International JCE Sender: <e$@vmeng.com> Precedence: Bulk Happy Xmas from the Cryptix Development Team! Here's the full story: ======================================= For immediate release: Cryptix 3.0 - the International JCE 23 December 1997 -- A major new release of Cryptix is now available on web sites around the world. Cryptix V3.0 includes the International Java Cryptography Extension (IJCE). The cleanroom implementation of the JavaSoft specification was built by David Hopwood and Raif Naffah, and also includes new algorithms by the team, including the long-awaited unencumbered ElGamal public key algorithm. Cryptix includes the strong cryptography that is needed to protect privacy and electronic commerce on the Internet. With this release, the Cryptix Development Team is maintaining its committment to quality, freeware cryptography. In full, the Cryptix International JCE release supports: Symmetric encryption Blowfish, CAST5, DES, Triple DES, IDEA, LOKI'91, RC2, RC4, SAFER, SPEED, Square Message digests HAVAL, MD2, MD4, MD5, RIPEMD-128, RIPEMD-160, SHA-0, SHA-1 Public-key encryption RawElGamal GF(p), RSA Public-key signatures RawElGamal GF(p), RSA Padding PKCS#5, PKCS#7, OneAndZeroes, NONE Modes ECB, CBC, CFB, CFB-PGP, OFB Miscellaneous Base64 encoding Cryptix now offers the widest choice in Java cryptographic solutions. These benefits can be downloaded from the international mirror index listed below. A design goal of maintaining compatibility with Java 1.0.2 has been substantially achieved, although specific Java 1.1 features and some of the new algorithms (ElGamal and KeyGenerators) are not available when using the older standard. This provides a smoother upgrade path to full J1.1 and JCE functionality. The international download mirror index is located at http://www.systemics.com/software/cryptix-java/ The Cryptix Development Team acknowledges the kind assistance of the many mirror sites that permit widespread and free distribution of the product, to maximum benefit of the Internet community. David Hopwood <hopwood@zetnet.co.uk>, Raif S. Naffah <raif@fl.net.au> and Ian Grigg <iang@systemics.com> are available to answer questions on this release of Cryptix. - - - - - - - - - Cryptix is a trademark of Systemics Ltd. Java is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Sun Microsystems does not endorse this release, and are not involved in any way with the product. -- iang systemics.com FP: 1189 4417 F202 5DBD 5DF3 4FCD 3685 FDDE on pgp.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Where people, networks and money come together: Consult Hyperion http://www.hyperion.co.uk/ info@hyperion.co.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Full-Strength Cryptographic Solutions for Worldwide Electronic Commerce http://www.c2.net/ stronghold@c2.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Like e$? Help pay for it! For e$/e$pam sponsorship or donations, <mailto:rah@shipwright.com> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ Ask me about FC98 in Anguilla!: <http://www.fc98.ai/>