wolfCrypt JCE Provider and JNI Wrapper

This packages includes both a JNI wrapper and JCE provider around the native wolfCrypt cryptography library. It supports both normal and FIPS validated versions of wolfCrypt.

For instructions and notes on the JNI wrapper, please reference this README.md, or the wolfSSL online user manual.

For instructions and notes on the JCE provider, please reference the README_JCE.md file, or online user manual.

Compiling Native wolfSSL (Dependency)

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To compile the wolfCrypt JNI wrapper and JCE provider, first the native (C) wolfSSL library must be compiled and installed.

Compile and install a wolfSSL (wolfssl-x.x.x), wolfSSL FIPS release (wolfssl-x.x.x-commercial-fips), or wolfSSL FIPS Ready release.

In any of these cases, you will need the --enable-jni ./configure option. The --enable-jni option includes all native wolfSSL features needed by both wolfCrypt JNI/JCE (this package) as well as wolfSSL JNI/JSSE (a separate package and repo). If you want the minimal set of requirements needed for only wolfJCE, you can use --enable-keygen --enable-crl, where CRL support is needed to support JCE CertPathValidator(PKIX) CRL support.

wolfSSL Standard Build:

$ cd wolfssl-x.x.x
$ ./configure --enable-jni
$ make check
$ sudo make install

wolfSSL FIPSv2 Build:

$ cd wolfssl-x.x.x-commercial-fips
$ ./configure --enable-fips=v2 --enable-jni
$ make check
$ sudo make install

wolfSSL FIPS Ready Build:

$ cd wolfssl-x.x.x-commercial-fips
$ ./configure --enable-fips=ready --enable-jni
$ make check
$ sudo make install

Compiling wolfSSL JNI/JCE with ant

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wolfCrypt JNI/JCE's ant build is the most stable and well-tested. Newer support for building with Maven has also been added. See section below for instructions on building with Maven. Continue reading here for instructions to build with ant.

1. Compile the native wolfCrypt JNI object files. Two makefiles are distributed, one for Linux (makefile.linux) and one for Mac OSX (makefile.macosx). First copy the makefile for your platform to a file called makefile:

$ cd wolfcrypt-jni
$ cp makefile.linux makefile

Then compile the native wolfCrypt JNI object files into a native C shared library:

$ cd wolfcrypt-jni
$ make

2. Compile the wolfCrypt JNI/JCE Java sources files, from the wolfcrypt-jni directory:

$ ant (shows possible build targets)
$ ant <build-jni-debug|build-jni-release|build-jce-debug|build-jce-release>

In order for the JUnit tests to be run correctly when executing "ant test", please follow these steps (for Linux/Mac):

Running "ant test" will execute JUnit tests included in this package. These tests require JUnit to be available on your system and for the correct JAR files to be on your JUNIT_HOME path.

To install and set up JUnit:

a) Download "junit-4.13.2.jar" and "hamcrest-all-1.3.jar" from junit.org

b) Place these JAR files on your system and set JUNIT_HOME to point to that location:

$ export JUNIT_HOME=/path/to/jar/files

The JUnit tests can then be run with:

$ ant test

To clean the both Java JAR and native library:

$ ant clean
$ make clean

API Javadocs

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Running ant will generate a set of Javadocs under the wolfcrypt-jni/docs directory. To view the root document, open the following file in a web browser:

wolfcrypt-jni/docs/index.html

Compiling wolfSSL JNI/JCE with Maven

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wolfSSL JNI/JCE supports building and packaging with Maven, for those projects that are already set up to use and consume Maven packages.

wolfSSL JNI/JCE's Maven build configuration is defined in the included pom.xml file.

First, compile the native JNI shared library (libwolfcryptjni.so/dylib) same as above. This will create the native JNI shared library under the ./lib directory:

$ cd wolfcrypt-jni
$ cp makefile.linux makefile
$ make

Compile the Java sources, where Maven will place the compiled .class files under the ./target/classes directory:

$ mvn compile

Compile and run JUnit tests using:

$ mvn test

Package up the wolfCrypt JNI/JCE JAR file using the following command. This will run the JUnit tests then create a .jar file located under the ./target directory, similar to target/wolfcrypt-jni-X.X.X-SNAPSHOT.jar:

$ mvn package

To build the Javadoc API reference for wolfCrypt JNI/JCE run the following. This will generate Javadoc HTML under the ./docs/apidocs directory:

$ mvn javadoc:javadoc

To install the wolfSSL JNI/JCE JAR file, run the following. This will install the JAR into the local Maven repository:

$ mvn install

The local Maven repository installation location will be similar to:

~/.m2/repository/com/wolfssl/wolfcrypt-jni/X.X.X-SNAPSHOT/wolfcrypt-jni-X.X.X-SNAPSHOT.jar

The wolfCrypt JNI shared library (libwolfcryptjni.so/dylib) created with make will need to be "installed" by being placed on your native library search path. For example, copied into /usr/local/lib, /usr/lib, or other location. Alternatively, append the ./libs directory to your native library search path by exporting LD_LIBRARY_PATH (Linux) or DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH (OSX):

$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/path/to/wolfcryptjni/lib

After wolfCrypt JNI/JCE has been installed into the local Maven repository, an application can include this as a dependency in the application's pom.xml file, similar to (where the version number will change depending on the current release):

<project ...>
    ...
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.wolfssl</groupId>
            <artifactId>wolfcrypt-jni</artifactId>
            <version>1.7.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    ...
</project>

Example / Test Code

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The JUnit test code can act as a good usage example of the wolfCrypt JNI API. This test code is run automatically when "ant test" is executed from the root wolfcrypt-jni directory. The test source code is located at:

wolfcrypt-jni/src/test/com/wolfssl/wolfcrypt

JCE-specific examples can be found in the examples/provider sub-directory. These examples will only be compiled with either ant build-jce-debug or ant build-jce-release are used. Since these are JCE/provider-only examples, they are not built for JNI-only builds (ant build-jni-debug/release).

For more details, see the README_JCE.md.

JAR Code Signing

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The wolfcrypt-jni.jar can be code signed by placing a "codeSigning.properties" file in the "wolfcrypt-jni" root directory. The ant build script (build.xml) will detect the prescense of this properties file and use the provided information to sign the generated JAR file.

"codeSigning.properties" should have the following properties set:

sign.alias=<signing alias in keystore>
sign.keystore=<path to signing keystore>
sign.storepass=<keystore password>
sign.tsaurl=<timestamp server url>

Signing the JAR is important especially if using the JCE Provider with a JDK that requires JCE provider JAR's to be authenticated. Please see README_JCE.md for more details.

Release Notes

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Release notes can be found in ChangeLog.md.