Re: [compress] Support for strong encryption in zip files?

2013-06-12 Thread Bear Giles
Those regulations are why the default JCE policy is so restricted. I have to assume that there were a lot of lawyers involved in making sure that the Java approach to extending the JCE capabilities to more than 56/512 bits compiled with the law. There encryption in two places in a zip file: the fi

RE: [math] CurveFitter Classes

2013-06-12 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Gilles, Yes, I was. Thanks for the directions. Thanks, Jared -Original Message- From: Gilles [mailto:gil...@harfang.homelinux.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 4:16 PM To: dev@commons.apache.org Subject: Re: [math] CurveFitter Classes. . On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:54:49 -0500, Becksfort,

Re: [math] CurveFitter Classes

2013-06-12 Thread Gilles
On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:54:49 -0500, Becksfort, Jared wrote: Hello, I am wondering if something will replace the deprecated CurveFitter classes? Perhaps you are looking in the deprecated "o.a.c.m.optimization" package. Curve fitting is now in "o.a.c.m.fitting". Regards, Gilles [...] ---

[math] CurveFitter Classes

2013-06-12 Thread Becksfort, Jared
Hello, I am wondering if something will replace the deprecated CurveFitter classes? I looked around on the mailing list and Jira but did not see anything. I am looking to fit a curve to 3d points. Is there a better option in Commons Math? I have not settled on a fit/cost function and haven'

Re: [compress] Support for strong encryption in zip files?

2013-06-12 Thread Gary Gregory
Why not start with encryption as provided out of the box by Java (6?). It's up to a user to install the string enc policy files or BouncyCastle or whatnot. It's all plugable IIRC. Gary On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Siegfried Goeschl wrote: > Hi folks, > > don't know if this was already me

Re: [compress] Support for strong encryption in zip files?

2013-06-12 Thread Siegfried Goeschl
Hi folks, don't know if this was already mentioned but providing strong encryption causes administrative head-ache http://www.apache.org/dev/crypto.html Cheers, Siegfried Goeschl On 12.06.13 16:29, Bear Giles wrote: This morning I realized that the license requirement could be a real probl

Re: [compress] Support for strong encryption in zip files?

2013-06-12 Thread Bear Giles
This morning I realized that the license requirement could be a real problem if it applies to the end developer instead of or in addition to any libraries. On the other hand it might just be a completely reasonable requirement that the code be tested for compatibility with PKWARE and the license re

[ANNOUNCE] Apache Commons NET 3.3 released

2013-06-12 Thread sebb
The Apache Commons team are pleased to announce the release of Commons Net version 3.3. This is a bug fix release. All users are encouraged to upgrade to 3.3. For details of the fixes and new features please see: http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/net/RELEASE-NOTES.txt [These are also included

Re: [compress] Support for strong encryption in zip files?

2013-06-12 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2013-06-12, Bear Giles wrote: > What is the status on strong encryption in zip files? That is - I know we > don't have it, but is there a reason why it hasn't been added or is it just > an itch that hasn't been scratched? > I can see several levels of values > 1. add ZipExtraField handlers fo