Protekt Encryption

Compatible Providers

Much effort has been expended keeping Protekt independent of any particular cryptography provider implementation. We test against as many providers as we can and welcome feedback from users who have tested with other providers.

Protekt has been tested with the following JCA providers (compatibility notes are provided when necessary):

ABA

eSec (formerly ABA) has a free cryptography provider (including source code). Version 1.1 of the eSec provider is distributed with Protekt. To use the eSec provider the useSeparateEncryptionBuffer property must be set to true in Protekt.properties:

useSeparateEncryptionBuffer=true

IAIK

Protekt works with IAIK JCE 2.51. No special settings are necessary to run with IAIK JCE 2.51.

DSTC

The DSTC has released a cryptography provider that is free for non-commercial use. The distribution includes source code. The cipher initialisation parameters for the DSTC RSA cipher are different from normal - Protekt must be made aware of this by changing the rsa.cipher.specifier property in Protekt.properties to a value of "RSA":

rsa.cipher.specifier=RSA

Sun

The SunJCE provides Diffie-Hellman key exchange and DES ciphers.