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bouncycastle @bccrypto

Official Twitter account for the Legion of the Bouncy Castle Cryptography APIs

Joined November 2013
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bouncycastle@bccrypto
16 Jan 2025
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.
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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…

Download Bouncy Castle C# .NET - Bouncycastle

Download our Bouncy Castle C# .NET APIs through NuGet, GitHub, or our website for a comprehensive and flexible set of cryptographic functions.

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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.

Download Bouncy Castle Java - Bouncycastle

Download our Bouncy Castle Java APIs through GitHub, Maven, or our website for a comprehensive and flexible set of cryptographic functions.

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bouncycastle@bccrypto
30 Jul 2024
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.

Cryptographic Module Validation Program | CSRC | CSRC

Welcome to the CMVP The Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) is a joint effort between the National Institute of Standards and Technology under the Department of Commerce and the Canadian...

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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….
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bouncycastle@bccrypto
29 Apr 2024
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!
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New BC C# Release 2.3.0 now available, find it at: nuget.org/packages/BouncyCas… Details at: bouncycastle.org/csharp/inde…

BouncyCastle.Cryptography 2.3.0

BouncyCastle.NET is a popular cryptography library for .NET

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bouncycastle@bccrypto
22 Jan 2024
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/

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bouncycastle@bccrypto
15 Nov 2023
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.
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bouncycastle@bccrypto
28 Sep 2023
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…
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bouncycastle@bccrypto
31 Jul 2023
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/
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bouncycastle@bccrypto
31 Jul 2023
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.
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bouncycastle@bccrypto
28 Jul 2023
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!

Validation Search - Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program | CSRC | CSRC

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bouncycastle@bccrypto
24 Jun 2023
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.
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bouncycastle@bccrypto
23 Jun 2023
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
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bouncycastle@bccrypto
16 Jun 2023
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…
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bouncycastle@bccrypto
27 May 2023
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.
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bouncycastle@bccrypto
21 Apr 2023
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…
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bouncycastle@bccrypto
18 Apr 2023
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.

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bouncycastle@bccrypto
11 Apr 2023
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…

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