Java, Secure Development and other IT related Thoughts
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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…
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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…
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First steps with EGit
I have pushed my first bug fix with EGit today (bug 319343, which occurred when canceling an XML Security Tools wizard). Developing the fix was easy, using EGit not (OK, some rookie trouble): The commit to my local repo worked fine. But the push failed. I dropped over bug 317389. Every push failed with the…
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XML Security Tools updates
Quite a few things are happening around the XML Security Tools at the moment. For one thing, Eric Fu (Canada) is supporting me with bug reports and (much more important) their fixes. He is not an official committer yet, but I very much welcome his support! And a new developer requires me to set up…
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XML Security Tools with Hudson builds and update site
XML Security Tools now builds on Hudson! One nice side effect is the update site support, which makes installations much easier for you. Simply add the URL to your update sites and you can receive every update easily. With special thanks to Dave Carver for the setup work.
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Versions 1.1 of XML Security coming closer
The W3C recently published new working drafts of several XML Security related 1.1 versions: On May 13th, XML Signature Syntax and Processing, XML Encryption Syntax and Processing and XML Security Generic Hybrid Ciphers have been updated. These are so called Last Call Working Drafts, meaning the process is finally coming to an end and we…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Different XML Security drafts updated
Quite a lot of XML Security related drafts were updated during my two months holiday: XML Signature Syntax and Processing Version 2.0 and Canonical XML Version 2.0 both got updated on March 4th 2010. However both documents are still in working draft stage. Besides that there is a new XML Encryption Syntax and Processing Version…