Re: encryptin of messages ...

Jan Luehe (luehe@laguna.eng.sun.com)
Tue, 22 Sep 1998 09:41:07 -0700 (PDT)

Miroslav:

> I want to encrypt and decrypt the messages I'm sending between server
> and client Java applications. I have studied your "Java Cryptography
> Architecture" (JCA) API Specification reference and I see that JCA is
> for signatures ONLY.
> MessageDigest can't solve my problem too, can it ? (I dont need HASH,
> bud encrypted message)
> Is there some possibility to send encrypted messages in JAVA, so that
> noone except cliet and server can read the message ?
> thank you very much.

Please check:

http://developer.javasoft.com/developer/earlyAccess/jdk12/jce.html

Note that JCE 1.2 is not exportable outside the U.S./Canada.

I believe people at TU Graz have written a provider for JCE 1.2.
Please check with them.

Jan