Dominik Schadow

Category: JCrypTool

  • JCrypTool running for Eclipse Community Awards 2011

    JCrypTool is running in the Best Application category with the Eclipse Community Awards 2011.

    Remember to visit our home page on December 29th 2010 to download our new release candidate 4!

  • Get ready for JCrypTool release candidate 4

    JCrypTool release candidate 4 is approaching rapidly with many new features and lots of bug fixes. Have a look at our wiki page with all detailed information. This release is scheduled for December 29th, 2010.

  • The org.eclipse.compare trouble

    Recently we have upgraded JCrypTool from Eclipse 3.5 to Eclipse 3.6. And had to bring in a bunch of new plug-in dependencies since org.eclipse.equinox.p2.ui.sdk suddenly required org.eclipse.compare (and of course org.eclipse.compare required some more plug-ins).

    Thanks to Kai‘s Blog there is a solution for this problem now (or better a workaround). My question is, why is this necessary? There is a recommendation to not use any IDE related plug-ins inside an Eclipse RCP. A perfectly good recommendation for most of the applications out there. But org.eclipse.compare requires org.eclipse.ui.ide, and there you go. The next thing is, the modified ui.sdk (as described by Kai) is working fine, no problems at all. Why does a RCP developer have to modify an original plug-in this way? Isn‘t RCP supposed to make your development easier? Isn‘t p2 the future (and already the present) of updating your RCP? Isn‘t an optional dependency on org.eclipse.compare the better solution? Or a fragment that brings in the functionality that requires org.eclipse.compare? In my eyes the latest org.eclipse.equinox.p2.ui.sdk plug-in is a step backwards. Not a huge one, but it is going the wrong direction…

  • More than 20.000 JCrypTool downloads since August 2007

    Some statistics today: JCrypTool milestone 1 was released on August 23rd 2007, more or less three years ago. 7 milestone versions and 4 release candidates hit the road since then, with more than 20.000 downloads. Thats an average of almost 600 a month. And we are already working on the next release candidate 4, which will be available some time in October.

  • New JCrypTool article “Kleptography in black box implementations” available

    A new German article on “Kleptography in black box implementations” is available as PDF (2 MB) for free (published in <kes> 2010#4). This article describes the Kleptography background and the sample implementation in the JCrypTool Kleptography plug-in. An extra page focuses on installing JCrypTool and the first steps in the e-learning platform.
    The JCrypTool Kleptography plug-in was introduced in our latest release candidate 3. It is one of only a few Kleptography sample implementations available, and the only implementation with a focus on e-learning.

  • JCrypTool 1.0.0 Release Candidate 3 available for download

    JCrypTool 1.0.0 Release Candidate 3 is available for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows (as 32bit and 64bit versions for all operating systems). Download the new release today!

    This release contains several bug fixes and some updated features. Make sure to check out the enhanced Kleptography plug-in in the analysis section.

    There will be one more release candidate before the final 1.0 version. I guess we will prepare the next release candidate sometime in October. There is still some work to do, so feel free to join the JCrypTool team!

  • JCrypTool 1.0.0 Release Candidate 2 is here

    JCrypTool 1.0.0 Release Candidate 2 is available for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows (as 32bit and 64bit versions for all operating systems). Download the new release today!

    This release contains several bug fixes and some updated features. See the release notes or our wiki for detailed information.

    At the moment, we intend to ship one more release candidate sometime this summer. The date is not set yet, it depends on the bugs we'll find and receive and other community feedback. So get involved!

  • Getting started with JCrypTool updated

    A new and extremely extended version of the Getting started with JCrypTool guide is available (pdf, 1.5 MB). This is the ultimate guide for new users and new developers who wish to extend JCrypTool with their own plug-ins.

    Release candidate 2 is the upcoming release and will be released on May 16th 2010. See our wiki for details on the upcoming release.

  • JCrypTool RC2 coming closer

    JCrypTool 1.0 release candidate 2 is finally coming closer. Since we do want to provide some additional bug fixes and other improvements the new version will be released early May.

    What can you expect? Besides the integration of the latest BouncyCastle and FlexiProvider libraries a lot of UI improvements took place. The whole UI is more consistent among all wizards and views (as well as the used wording). More help is available and there are some new crypto plug-ins (SHA-3 candidates and several visualizations). So get prepared for the upcoming version!

  • Getting involved

    More and more people start using JCrypTool. As you can imagine, we are extremely happy about that! And more and more people start providing feedback via the SourceForge thumbs up or thumbs down button. This is probably the easiest way to get in touch with us. And the comment field provides room for a short review.

    I‘m having mixed feelings about this field. On one side it is of course nice to read ,I love feature xyz to do this and that.‘. But on the other side it tempts people to mention that JCT crashes or that they immediately found a bug. Yes, this happens.

    Don‘t misunderstand me, of course there a bugs in JCrypTool. And we do want to fix them. Every single one of them. So please, use our bug tracker, or our forum, or our mailing list to report a bug. We will fix it. Always. And we want you to continue using JCrypTool without having to work around that particular bug all the time. It‘s your choice, get involved.