Hi,
You need to ask this on github, we're not doing support for the Android
project.
The best would be to try. Open an encrypted file and don't include
BouncyCastle and see if it works.
Our own code does not use BC in StandardSecurityHandler which is why
it's optional dependency. It is used for electronic signing and
certificates.
Tilman
On 11.11.2023 22:32, jose wrote:
Hello,
I wanted to confirm if BC dependencies are strictly necessary for
decrypting documents with standard security.
I'm testing PDFBox 3.0.0-RC1 on android and to my surprise I was able to
decrypt a password protected document without including BC dependencies.
I looked a little bit at the code of StandardSecurityHandler and
PublicKeySecurityHandler and noticed that the former has no direct
reference to BC classes, but I'm not sure if StandardSecurityHandler might
still use BC indirectly in some cases.
I double checked transitive dependencies and for sure I'm not including BC,
so the question is, should I? For now I don't need public key encryption.
Thanks!
Jose
