I'm trying to use bouncycastle for kotlin. I kinda...

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[Colton Idle]

I'm trying to use bouncycastle for kotlin. I kinda feel like an idiot because i can't find what dependency i should drop into my build.gradle. lol. just me?
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-kotlin

[ephemient]

it isn't published. also I don't think it has kept up with bouncycastle anyway

[Stefan Oltmann]

BouncyCastle was great back in the old Java days, but is now a bit out of touch.

Did you check if https://github.com/whyoleg/cryptography-kotlin may offer what you need?

[ephemient]

partly it's an artifact of its time, yes (back then it was illegal to export anything being basic crypto from the US)

[ephemient]

but nowadays you can find the main products of BC in Maven Central

[ephemient]

not this limited Kotlin DSL though

[Stefan Oltmann]

Good they made their way to Maven Central. May previous product (Java) used (and still uses) BouncyCastle for X.509 certs for many years. It’s a great lib. But I felt to look for KMP after something that’s more from the ground up made for Kotlin.

[ephemient]

yep.
if you're on Java you're likely interoperating with JCA (which bouncycastle ties into) so you might as well use those types and not some Kotlin wrapper around a subset. or if you don't need to touch JCA, then use something like Tink for a better and maintained interface to crypto.
if you're on multiplatform then BC isn't an option anyway.

[Colton Idle]

Tink has been decent to work with... but its proprietary wire formats are killing me.

[Colton Idle]

Like Tink <> Tink is great. but tink java <> ios crypto lib has been terrible.