Whois & Analysis for bouncycastle.org

Bouncy Castle is a collection of APIs used in cryptography.

It includes APIs for both the Java and the C# programming languages.

The APIs are supported by a registered Australian charitable organization: Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.

Cryptography or cryptology (from Greek kryptós, "hidden, secret"; and graphein, "writing", or -logia, "study", respectively) is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties called adversaries.

More generally, cryptography is about constructing and analyzing protocols that prevent third parties or the public from reading private messages; various aspects in information security such as data confidentiality, data integrity, authentication, and non-repudiation are central to modern cryptography.

Modern cryptography exists at the intersection of the disciplines of mathematics, computer science, and electrical engineering.

Applications of cryptography include ATM cards, computer passwords, and electronic commerce.

Java is a general-purpose computer programming language that is concurrent, class-based, object-oriented, and specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.

It is intended to let application developers "write once, run anywhere" (WORA), meaning that compiled Java code can run on all platforms that support Java without the need for recompilation.

Java applications are typically compiled to bytecode that can run on any Java virtual machine (JVM) regardless of computer architecture.

As of 2016, Java is one of the most popular programming languages in use, particularly for client-server web applications, with a reported 9 million developers.

Java was originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems (which has since been acquired by Oracle Corporation) and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform.

The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++, but it has fewer low-level facilities than either of them.

Open-source software (OSS) is computer software with its source code made available with a license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose.

Open-source software may be developed in a collaborative public manner.

According to scientists who studied it, open-source software is a prominent example of open collaboration.

In computer science, a library is a collection of non-volatile resources used by computer programs, often to develop software.

These may include configuration data, documentation, help data, message templates, pre-written code and subroutines, classes, values or type specifications.

In IBM's OS/360 and its successors they are referred to as partitioned data sets.