Bouncy Castle Crypto Provider Package version 1.63 now available

Release 1.63 is now out.

This release introduces jars for Java 1.5 to 1.8 only for users with 
tools that cannot handle the multi-release jar files. Support has been 
added for ZUC-128, ZUC-256 ciphers and MACs, ChaCha20-Poly1305 as an 
AEAD cipher, and PBKDF2withHMacSM3. Some JCE related issues have been 
addressed for DSTU MACs and GOST3412-2015 CTR mode and some numerical 
issues have been adddressed for secp128r1 and X448. Further improvements 
have been made to the name constraint processing in the CertPath 
implementation as well.

Further details on other additions and bug fixes can be found in the 
release notes at:

https://www.bouncycastle.org/releasenotes.html

Thanks also goes to other people and organisations who have 
contributed/donated to the project and you can find the updated list at

https://www.bouncycastle.org/contributors.html

We would also like to thank holders of Crypto Workshop support contracts 
as we were again able to fund extra work on this release through time 
available from those.

For the actual release and other details go to our latest releases page:

https://www.bouncycastle.org/latest_releases.html

And for those who like living on the bleeding edge, the betas for future 
releases can be downloaded from:

https://www.bouncycastle.org/betas/

and changes to the code base can be tracked via:

https://github.com/bcgit

On the FIPS front, the Java FIPS 1.0.2 project has now been certified 
and the release can be found at:

https://www.bouncycastle.org/fips-java

Future plans can be found at:

https://www.bouncycastle.org/fips_java_roadmap.html

We are looking to raise money for the NIST recovery fees for our next 
certification. If you are interested helping support the Bouncy Castle 
project through donation, you can find the details on how to donate via 
PayPal or Bitcoin, at:

https://www.bouncycastle.org/donate

The Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc is a registered Australian
charity based in the State of Victoria, Australia.

If you wish to sponsor specific work on Bouncy Castle, get early access 
to the FIPS APIs under development, or get a commercial support contract 
for the APIs please contact us at Crypto Workshop 
(https://www.cryptoworkshop.com ) details about support can be found at:

https://www.cryptoworkshop.com/support_faq.html

Remember, you can also follow this project on Facebook (
https://www.facebook.com/legionofthebouncycastle ), and/or Twitter ( 
https://twitter.com/bccrypto ).

Finally, for users of the maven repositories, 1.63 should be appearing 
shortly on maven central. The GitHub repository has been updated as well.