[Classpathx-crypto] 1.0.0 release

[Raif S. Naffah]

hello guys,

below is, hopefully, the final draft of the announcement.  shortly i'll 
update the main home page to reflect the new download urls.

i'd like to take this opportunity to publicly thank Werner Koch, the 
maintainer of GNU Privacy Guard, for his help in ironing the 
export-related issue, and for allowing his ftp site to be gnu.crypto's 
main download site.

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Subject: [ANN] GNU Crypto 1.0.0

The GNU Crypto team is proud to anounce the release of the first public 
version of the gnu.crypto library.

GNU Crypto, part of the GNU ClasspathX project, released under the aegis 
of GNU, is a 100% Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms and 
tools, and includes a Java Cryptographic Provider implementation to 
allow its use through the Java JCA framework and APIs.

GNU Crypto includes, in addition to the now standard cryptographic 
primitives (MD5, SHA-1, AES, etc.), implementations of new and 
experimental cryptographic primitives and transforms such as Universal 
Hash Algorithms (UMAC32, TMMH-16 v1), the Universal Security Transform 
(UST), and others.  GNU Crypto also includes implementations of some of 
the accepted (2nd round) NESSIE (New European Schemes for Signatures, 
Integrity, and Encryption) project such as Anubis, Khazad, Whirlpool, etc.

More details on the rationale, and contents of the library can be found 
on the project's home page at: 
<http://www.gnu.org/software/classpathx/crypto/crypto.html>.  The main 
download site for the deliverables is: ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnu-crypto/


GNU Crypto is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public 
License, with the "library exception."

(Java is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All other
trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.)

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cheers;
rsn