The Bouncy Castle Cryptographic C#® API

Donors

The following people and organisations donated financially to help with the release of 1.8.9:
 
loligans and Encryptomatic LLC

The following people and organisations donated financially to help with the release of 1.8.8:
 
jey4554, Manual Corona, and Encryptomatic LLC

The following people and organisations donated financially to help with the release of 1.8.5:
 
Pharylon

The following people and organisations donated financially to help with the release of 1.8:
 
Andrew Grosser, Antonio Royo, dmitry.ribakov@gmail.com, PhreePhly, and encryptomatic.com.

Code Contributors:

The following organisations and people have contributed to the C# Bouncy Castle Cryptography Package.

Thanks, may your castles never deflate!

Contributors - Organisations.

• Monash University, Cyber Security Lab, under the supervision of A. Prof. Ron Steinfeld, Dr. Amin Sakzad, and Dr. Raymond K. Zhao for contributions to the NIST post-quantum algorithm set. Initial NTRU Prime implementation: Yuki Kume. Initial Falcon implementation: Zi Li Tan.

Contributors - People

• Kaiser Yang <kaiseryang@yahoo.com> - initial port of the lightweight API and ASN.1 library. Finding BigInteger loop problem.

• Asier Murciego <a.murciego@captiva-sys.es> - Further patching to BigInteger library.

• Megan Woods <megan.woods@widestreet.com.au> - X509 certificate generation, RSA/DSA digest signature classes.

• David Del Vecchio <ddelvecc@virginia.edu> - patches to RSA Pkcs1 Signature generation OID issues, help with clarifications on DateTime and certificates.

• Nelson Fernandez <nelson-bc@kpanic.com.ar> - patches to allow compilation under mono.

• Paulo Soares <psoares@consiste.pt> - patches to X509CertificateParser, C# port of JZlib plus inflater/deflater streams, C# port of Apache BZip2 classes.

• Pawel Niewiadomski <11110000b@gmail.com> - patches for X509 and CMS, unit test for time classes.

• Jesper Johansen <jesper@hc.jay.net> - bug fix for DerT61String encodings.

• Adam Sternberg <agsternberg@gmail.com> - identified problem with generation of PGP public keyrings.

• Kirill Zhuklinets <zhuklinets_k@gaz-is.ru> - initial submission of bulk of Asn1.Esf classes (RFC 3126).

• Dr Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@rcrt.co.uk> - identified problem with BigInteger.ModPow for negative exponents.

• Mauricio Ulate <mulate@gmail.com> - identified problem with non-ASCII pass phrases in PGP.

• John Allberg <John.Allberg@teliasonera.com> - initial implementation of CryptoApiRandomGenerator.

• Mattias Öhrn <mattias.ohrn@gmail.com> - identified problem with Pkcs12Store.Save and provided fix.

• Jen Andre <jandre@gmail.com> - initial implementation of case-insensitive searches for PGP keyrings.

• #Cyrille37# <cyrille37@gmail.com> - identified problem with BigInteger.ModInverse for negative values.

• David Reis Jr <davidreis@yahoo.com> - bug fix for X509CrlStoreSelector handling of NextUpdate, fix handling of null parameters for DSA in key factories, initial port of Pkix namespace and supporting tests.

• Ivan Peev <ivan.peev@cozyroc.com> - bug fix for version string displayed in PGP armored output.

• Hector Ornelas Aciga <hector.ornelas@sat.gob.mx> - patch to add support for PKCS#5 Scheme 2 keys.

• Tom Van Holle <tvh@dsoft.be> - patch to add new class: Pkcs10CertificationRequestDelaySigned.

• Kalev Lember <kalev@smartlink.ee> - patch to fix compilation problem under Mono 2.8+.

• Kyle Hamilton <kyanha.bouncycastle@kyanha.net> - identified problem with BigInteger.Multiply, patch for MiscPemGenerator infinite recursion, proposed improvements in use of random numbers.

• Atanas Krachev <akrachev@gmail.com> - added support for revocation signatures in OpenPGP.

• Torsten Moschny <t.moschny@web.de> - identified problem where PrivateKeyFactory/PublicKeyFactory failed to preserve publicKeyParamSet for EC keys.

• Thomas Heggelund <the@dips.no> - identified problem with RSAParameters fields requiring zero-byte padding to satisfy .NET.

• Laszlo Magyar <lmagyar1973@gmail.com> - patch to fix problem with SubjectDirectoryAttributes constructor.

• Tim Whittington (https://github.com/timw) - ports of ChaCha, GMAC, Memoable, Poly1305, Skein, SM3, Threefish, XSalsa20. Registerised Salsa20 core.

• Oscar Jacobsson (https://github.com/OscarAyoy) - patch to fix DerEnumerated constructor (including test coverage).

• Michael Krueger <michael.krueger@secardeo.com> - patch to fix Asn1.Cmp.RevDetails constructor.

• Daniel Nauck <daniel.nauck@gmail.com> - patch for Portable Class Library support.

• John Allberg <john@ayoy.se> - improvements to Portable Class Library patch.

• Oren Novotny (https://github.com/onovotny) - developed and maintained a fork supporting Portable Class Library, worked closely with us to integrate the changes back into the main project.

• Nicolas Dorier (https://github.com/NicolasDorier) - patch to fix culture-dependent lookups in MacUtilities.

• Artem Storozhuk <storojs72@gmail.com> - initial implementation of DSTU7564 (digest) and DSTU7624 (cipher) and their associated modes.

• bkalakrishnan (https://github.com/bkalakrishnan) - reported issue with SecureRandom.NextDouble and advised how to fix.

• BlackthornYugen (https://github.com/BlackthornYugen) - contributed unit tests for NIST ECC..

• Nathan Douthit (https://github.com/ndouthit) - Null policy fix for TimeStampTokenGenerator

• fabiogermann (https://github.com/fabiogermann) - Mixed definiton support for OAEPwithSHA256andMGF1withSHA1.