Paulo,

Maybe there is a better way.

I have 2 motivating factors:

1. Limit the deployment size. The bouncy castle jars are as large as  
the iText jar. Maybe a 'thin" BC can be distributed with iText that  
only contains the ASN functions? Or just implement the ASN1 functions  
in iText?

2. Limit the outside dependencies. Since iText uses the BC api  
directly, there might be compatibility problems in the future if the  
BC api changes, yet other systems need the latest BC api. I am trying  
to avoid Windows 'DLL Hell'.

If the JCE does not cover needed "complex" operations that are  
required, then I can see the need for using BC directly. But it seems  
that most of these are fairly simple utility methods (if I understand  
it correctly).

Maybe if you were more specific about what is needed in BC that is  
not available in JCE, I can work on writing that code.

Robert


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