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RSA BSafe Crypto-J equivalent library

 
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We are using RSA BSafe Crypto-J for encrypting some data elements. This is a licensed product and we incur significant maintenance fees. Being on a tight budget we want to replace Crypto-J with another encryption library.

We currently use IBM WebSphere as the application server platform. What is the IBM equivalent library that can replace Crypto-J? I read some documentation about IBMJCE but I am not sure.

Any suggestions or help will be welcome.

Thanks in advance.
[ December 19, 2008: Message edited by: Paul Samson ]
 
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Welcome to JavaRanch.

If you were using a licensed product I'm assuming that Java's built-in JCE API is not sufficient for your purposes; care to elaborate why not? That might give us a better chance to recommend alternatives.

Barring further information, I'd recommend http://www.bouncycastle.org/ as a general-purpose API (which includes a JCE implementation, but has also many other features above and beyond that).
 
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You will have to give us more information on what you are really looking for. The built in Java crypto API can do all the functions (or most) but its different. If you need a drop in replacement, that will be harder than if you just need AES, RSA, etc.

I haven't looked at BSafe in years, but when I did, I found their API to be pretty hard to deal with. The Java crypto stuff is much better.

The BSafe code was not especially faster than any other implementation of the crypto, perhaps it was even slower, since they designed it to execute on a mythical RSA machine.

For most crypto work, Java is plenty fast. If you are doing a lot of SSL sessions, you probably want to offload the SSL session into a front end processor such as a ServIron or BigIP, anyway.
 
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