Bouncy Castle JCE provider alternatives

Right now we are trying to evaluate various open source JCE providers for encryption and signing capabilities for our project. It is J2EE based web application 开发者_JAVA技巧project. I came across "Legion of the Bouncy Castle" which seems to satisfy our requirements. Though before finalizing to it, I want to know its pros and cons and its evaluation w.r.t. nearest competitor?

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I asked the same question some time ago and failed. I couldn't find any OS alternative to Bouncy Castle, so we ended up using it - for verifying the signature of GPG-signed archives. It works quite well, although there is no real documentation and searching for examples on the net is not trivial. So expect a little experimentation - I'd say 1-2 days to get yourself familiarized with it.

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I'm not aware of other open source JCE providers (unless you count OpenJDK). But in general, I've found BouncyCastle to be a superb provider with tons of capabilities, and portability good enough to never fail me so far.

Performance was fine for our needs, YMMV (but probably not that much).