Hello everyone,

I have just released version 1.0 of JASYPT (Java Simplified Encryption), and, as some of you might find it useful for your hibernate projects, I wanted to let you know.

This is a brief list of features (as published in TheServerSide):

- It follows the RSA standards for Password-Based Cryptography.

- It is completely thread-safe.

- Can be both used in an "easy" way, with almost no difficulty, or in a highly-configurable, power-user way.

- It provides comprehensive guides and javadoc documentation, to allow developers to better understand what they are really doing to their data.

- It provides a Hibernate integration add-on (jasypt-hibernate) for persisting fields of your mapped entities in an encrypted manner. Encryption of fields is defined in the Hibernate mapping files, and it remains transparent for the rest of the application (useful for sensitive personal data, databases with many read-enabled users...)

- It can be perfectly integrated into a Spring application. All the digesters and encryptors in jasypt are designed to be easily used (instantiated, dependency-injected...) from an IoC container like Spring. And, because of it being thread-safe, they can be used without worries in a singleton-oriented environment like Spring.

- It allows a very high level of configurability: The developer can implement tricks like instructing an "encryptor" to ask a, for example, remote HTTPS server for the password to be used for encryption.

You can have a look at it at http://www.jasypt.org.

Regards,
Daniel