cryptlib

cryptlib
Developer(s) Peter Gutmann
Initial release 1995 (1995)
Stable release 3.4.4 (January 10, 2018 (2018-01-10) [1]) [±]
Written in C
Type Security library
License Sleepycat (Berkeley Database) License[2][3]
Website cryptlib.com

cryptlib is an open source cross-platform software security toolkit library. It is distributed under the Sleepycat License,[2] a free software license compatible with the GNU General Public License.[3] Alternatively, cryptlib is available under a standard commercial license for those preferring to use it under commercial terms.[4]

Features

cryptlib is a security toolkit library that allows programmers to incorporate encryption and authentication services to software. It provides a high-level interface so strong security capabilities can be added to an application without needing to know many of the low-level details of encryption or authentication algorithms. It comes with an over 400 page programming manual.[5]

At the highest level, cryptlib provides implementations of complete security services such as S/MIME and PGP/OpenPGP secure enveloping, SSL/TLS and SSH secure sessions, CA services such as CMP, SCEP, RTCS, and OCSP, and other security operations such as secure timestamping. Since cryptlib uses industry-standard X.509, S/MIME, PGP/OpenPGP, and SSH/SSL/TLS data formats, the resulting encrypted or signed data can be easily transported to other systems and processed there, and cryptlib itself runs on many operating systems—all Windows versions and most Unix/Linux systems. This allows email, files, and EDI transactions to be authenticated with digital signatures and encrypted in an industry-standard format.

cryptlib provides other capabilities including full X.509/PKIX certificate handling (all X.509 versions from X.509v1 to X.509v4) with support for SET, Microsoft AuthentiCode, Identrus, SigG, S/MIME, SSL, and Qualified certificates, PKCS #7 certificate chains, handling of certification requests and CRLs (certificate revocation lists) including automated checking of certificates against CRLs and online checking using RTCS and OCSP, and issuing and revoking certificates using CMP and SCEP. It also implements a full range of certification authority (CA) functions provides complete CMP, SCEP, RTCS, and OCSP server implementations to handle online certificate enrolment/issue/revocation and certificate status checking. Alongside the certificate handling, it provides a sophisticated key storage interface that allows the use of a wide range of key database types ranging from PKCS #11 devices, PKCS #15 key files, and PGP/OpenPGP key rings through to commercial-grade RDBMS' and LDAP directories with optional SSL protection.

cryptlib can make use of the crypto capabilities of a variety of external crypto devices such as hardware crypto accelerators, Fortezza cards, PKCS #11 devices, hardware security modules (HSMs), and crypto smart cards. It can be used with a variety of crypto devices that have received FIPS 140 or ITSEC/Common Criteria certification. The crypto device interface also provides a general-purpose plug-in capability for adding new functionality that can be used by cryptlib.

cryptlib is written in C and supports BeOS, DOS, IBM MVS, Mac OS X, OS/2, Tandem, a variety of Unix versions (including AIX, Digital Unix, DGUX, FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, MP-RAS, OSF/1, QNX, SCO/UnixWare, Solaris, SunOS, Ultrix, and UTS4), VM/CMS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95/98/ME, Windows CE/PocketPC/SmartPhone and Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista. It is designed to be portable to other embedded system environments. It is available as a standard Windows DLL. Language bindings are available for C / C++, C# / .NET, Delphi,[6] Java, Python, and Visual Basic(VB).

Algorithm support

Ciphers
AlgorithmKey sizeBlock size
AES128/192/256128
Blowfish44864
CAST-12812864
DES [7]5664
Triple DES112 / 16864
IDEA [8]12864
RC2 [9]102464
RC4 [9]20488
RC5 [8]83264
Skipjack [9]8064
Hashes
AlgorithmDigest size
MD2 [7][9]128
MD4 [7][9]128
MD5 [7]128
RIPEMD-160160
SHA-1160
SHA-2 / SHA-256256
MACs
AlgorithmKey sizeDigest size
HMAC-MD5128128
HMAC-RIPEMD-160160160
HMAC-SHA-1160160
HMAC-SHA-2256256
Public-key
AlgorithmKey size
Diffie–Hellman4096
DSA4096
ECDSA521
ECDH521
Elgamal4096
RSA4096

Release History

  • cryptlib 3.4.2 was released on December 17, 2012.[10]
  • cryptlib 3.4.1 was released on July 27, 2011.[11]
  • cryptlib 3.4.0 was released on October 6, 2010.[12]
  • cryptlib 3.3.2 was released on July 3, 2008.[13]
  • cryptlib 3.3.1 was released on February 1, 2007.[14]
  • cryptlib 3.3 was released on September 13, 2006.[15]
  • cryptlib 3.2.3a was released on August 29, 2006.[16]
  • cryptlib 3.2.3 was released on July 10, 2006.[17]
  • cryptlib 3.2.2 was released on September 6, 2005.[18]
  • cryptlib 3.2.1 was released on August 9, 2005.[19]
  • cryptlib 3.2 was released on April 18, 2005.[20]
  • cryptlib 3.1 was released on December 13, 2003.[21]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "cryptlib 3.4.4 released". 2018-01-10.
  2. 1 2 http://www.cryptlib.com/security-faq
  3. 1 2 https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#BerkeleyDB
  4. ↑ http://www.cryptlib.com/
  5. ↑ ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/crypt/cryptlib/manual.pdf
  6. ↑ http://cryptlib.sogot.de/delphi.html
  7. 1 2 3 4 Disabled by default due to its insecurity
  8. 1 2 Disabled by default due to it being patented
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 Disabled by default due to it being obsolete
  10. ↑ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.cryptlib/2593
  11. ↑ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.cryptlib/2512
  12. ↑ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.cryptlib/2470
  13. ↑ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.cryptlib/2184
  14. ↑ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.cryptlib/1982
  15. ↑ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.cryptlib/1862
  16. ↑ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.cryptlib/1841
  17. ↑ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.cryptlib/1779
  18. ↑ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.cryptlib/1385
  19. ↑ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.cryptlib/1349
  20. ↑ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.cryptlib/1167
  21. ↑ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.cryptlib/260
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