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BC Java 1.80 now out. Secret sharing, updates to TLS and OpenPGP. HQC implementation updated to latest draft and updates to ML-KEM, ML-DSA, and SLH-DSA private key encoding. See bouncycastle.org/download/bo… for details.
BC C# .NET 2.5.0 now available. Featuring the new NIST PQC Algorithms (ML-KEM, ML-FSA, and SLH-DSA) as well as updates to Ascon and an implementation of the PBE algorithm Argon2. For details see bouncycastle.org/download/bo…
BC Java 1.79 now out. ML-KEM, ML-DSA, SLH-DSA, RFC 9629, TLS improvements and others. See bouncycastle.org/download/bo… for details.
New Java FIPS 140-3 release BC-FJA 2.0.0 now certified csrc.nist.gov/projects/crypt… Available on the BC website and Maven Central. Thanks to our lab Acumen/Intertek and the folks at the @NIST CMVP.
BC C# .NET 2.3.1 now available! CVE fixes and others, see bouncycastle.org/csharp for details or checkout our new page at: new.bouncycastle.org/downloa….
BC 1.78.1 now out - CVE fixes plus MLS. See bouncycastle.org/latest_rele… or new.bouncycastle.org/downloa… if you want to check out our new website as well!
New BC C# Release 2.3.0 now available, find it at: nuget.org/packages/BouncyCas… Details at: bouncycastle.org/csharp/inde…
BC Java LTS 2.73.4 is now up. Updates from BC Java 1.77, OSGI support, additional Intel and ARM hardware acceleration for Linux and Darwin. Find it at: bouncycastle.org/lts-java/
BC Java 1.77 now out! PQC finalists updated to latest NIST draft standards. DTLS and Hybrid Certificate updates. See bouncycastle.org/latest_rele… for details.
Java FIPS module BC-FJA 1.0.2.4, complete with Java 17 support, now certified thanks to the efforts of our lab @acumensec with certificate #4616 see csrc.nist.gov/projects/crypt…
BC Java LTS 2.73.3 is now up. Updates from BC Java 1.76, Intel hardware acceleration and new ARM support for Linux and Darwin. Find it at: bouncycastle.org/lts-java/
BC Java 1.76 is now out! DTLS/TLS updates and a fix, additional PQC integration work for SPHINCS+, Kyber and the Round 4 KEMs. Further work on updating the PGP APIs. See bouncycastle.org/latest_rele… for details.
BC FJA-2.1.0, our first hybrid module featuring Intel Hardware Acceleration for AES and SHA-256, as well as LMS and FIPS 186-5 has now got its ACVP certificate. See csrc.nist.gov/projects/crypt… Available under support early access. The quest continues!
BC Java LTS 2.73.2 now out! Compatible updates up to BC 1.75 with Intel AES-NI support. See bouncycastle.org/lts-java/ for details.
BC 1.75 now out! Minor release fixing a problem with the Java 5 to Java 8 jars and some TLS issues. See bouncycastle.org/latest_rele… for details
BC Java 1.74 now out! Fix for X.509 LDAP related CVE 2023-33201 and some additional features and performance improvements. See bouncycastle.org/latest_rele…
BC FJA-1.0.2.4 now submitted for final certification, addressing the transitions at the end of 2023 and adding Java 17 as a tested environment. Thanks to the team at @acumensec for all the support. Early access available.
Hold the press! New C# Release 2.2.1: we forgot to set optimization. Sorry. Also did some more work on DTLS and a couple of other things. Details at bouncycastle.org/csharp/inde…
BC C# 2.2.0 now out. Support for X.509 Section 9.8 alt signatures and public keys, RFC 9146 connection ID in DTLS, OpenSSH public and private key formats, and more. Please see bouncycastle.org/csharp/#DOW… for details.
BC Java 1.73 now out. Introducing lightweight cryptography winner Ascon, security review done for PQC, performance improvements for everything from EdDSA, PQC, JPAKE and PEM parsing, and more! Available now at bouncycastle.org/latest_rele…