The Bouncy Castle Cryptographic C#® API

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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. Initial NTRU implementation: Akbar Fadiansyah and Yuki Kume. Initial CRYSTALS-Kyber implementation: Salang Kang. Initial CRYSTALS-Dilithium implementation: Salang Kang.
• University of Wollongong, Institute of Cybersecurity and Cryptology, under the supervision of Dr Dung Duong <hduong@uow.edu.au> for contributions to the NIST post-quantum algorithm set. Initial BIKE implementation: Tuong Ngoc Nguyen <tuong.nguyenng@gmail.com>, Xuan Thanh Khuc <khucxuanthanh@gmail.com>, and Khanh Nguyen <tungkhanhmta@gmail.com>. Initial HQC implementation: Tuong Ngoc Nguyen <tuong.nguyenng@gmail.com>, Xuan Thanh Khuc <khucxuanthanh@gmail.com>, and Khanh Nguyen <tungkhanhmta@gmail.com>.

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.

• 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.

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

• Alexander Irrgang (https://github.com/alexander-irrgang) - ISignatureFactory usage improvements in X.509 Attribute Certificate generation.

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

• doomkin (https://github.com/doomkin) - contribution to netocreapp2.0 project files, PrivateKeyFactory cast fixes, contributions on GOST R 3410-2012.

• Jim Schaad (https://github.com/jimsch) - Initial work on raw Public Keys.

• ROM-Knowledgeware (https://github.com/ROM-Knowledgeware) - initial CMSSignedDataGenerator DER improvements, .csproj file contributions.

• ZZMarquis (https://github.com/ZZMarquis) - SM2Engine offset fixes, contributions to porting SM4.

• Devvox93 (https://github.com/Devvox93) - initial work on plain ECDSA support.

• alextolp (https://github.com/alextolp) - cleanup of Pkcs10CertificationRequest.

• agpreynolds (https://github.com/agpreynolds) - constructor patch for PollRepContent.

• setycz (https://github.com/setycz) - documentation updates.

• abcsxl (https://github.com/abcsxl) - initial port of SM4Engine.

• Timo Rothenpieler (https://github.com/TimoRoth) - offset fix for Ed25519.GetWnaf().

• Filippo Biondi (https://github.com/fedelippo) - RsaPrivateCrtKeyParameters additions, improvements to CmsSignedDataGenerator, documentation updates.

• AlexPaskhin (https://github.com/AkexPaskhin) - Netcore migration work - early 1.9.0 Netcore NuGet artifact.

• Christoph Hannebauer (https://github.com/bb-froggy) - static refactoring of some Utilities classes, addition of Microsoft Kerberos KeyPurposeID, improved code comments.

• Kristian Rastrup (https://github.com/rastrup) - PkixCertPath otherCert list fix, encryotionAlg table fix in CmsSignedHelper, excludedCerts fix in PkixBuilderParameters, PssSigner constructor fix, type check fix in DHValidationParms, Arrays.ToString() start fix, improvements to ECPointTest.

• deniszykov (https://github.com/deniszykov) - TlsProtocol class improvements.

• fm-DmitryShyryayev (https://github.com/fm-DmitryShyryayev) - initial DTLS cancellation work.

• Liam Power (https://github.com/LiamPowerMatrikon) - initial pass at ChaCha20Poly1305.

• Skamaev (https://github.com/Skamaev) - GOST 2012 algorithm lookups for CmsSignedHelper.

• AntonPlotnikov (https://github.com/AntonPlotnikov) - Additional support for GOST 2012 algorithm in CMS SignedData generation.

• RafikBeng (https://github.com/RafikBeng) - algorithms table correction in DefaultSignatureAlgorithmIdentifier.

• Aaron Clauson (https://github.com/sipsorcery) - initial work on preventing DTLS handshake silent exception swallowing.

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

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

• Kangyuan Niu (https://github.com/niuk) - GCM reset in DTLS, initial work on ignoring corrupt records in DTLS.

• glebka-kozlov (https://github.com/glebka-kozlov) - further algorithm handling for GOST 2012.

• Jakub Jatczak (https://github.com/JakubJatczak) - file name casing with class name unification fixes.

• Yari Melzani (https://github.com/iupsilon) - added OtherRevocationInfoFormat into CmsSigneData classes.

• ylabade (https://github.com/ylabade) - DerOctetString null reference fix.

• Matthew Sitton (https://github.com/mdsitton) - Addition of missing ALPN Protocol names.

• Jozef Gajdoš (https://github.com/harrison314) - Time constructor optimization, RevokedStatus fix, improved thread-safe singleton code (e.g. X509Certificate/X509Crl cached encoding), SubjectPublicKeyInfo support in OpenSsl.PemWriter, fixed PSS raw signing over spans.

• Ben Adams (https://github.com/benaadams) - Performance optimization for AES-NI.

• Daniel Bleichenbacher - Fixed rounding issue in FF1. Reported incompatible RFC 3394 wrapping of 64 bit keys.

• Patrick (https://github.com/patagonaa) - Initial PR for DTLS Connection ID support (RFC 9146). Fixed NPE in connection ID code. PR to make DTLS initial resend timeout configurable.

• Anh Vo (https://github.com/anhvoms) - Ported OpenSSH utilities from bc-java.

• Arman Gungor (https://github.com/gungora) - Fixed SignerId.Equals.

• Scott Xu (https://github.com/scott-xu) - Fixed exception message.

• Triton (https://github.com/EnigmaTriton) - Improvements in PbeUtilities.

• Rob Hague (https://github.com/Rob-Hague) - Embed Picnic and Sike data in source to make it trim-friendly.