How to include the Spongy Castle JAR in Android?

These are two very simple examples of how to include Spongy Castle in a project:

• github.com/rtyley/spongycastle-eclipse - Eclipse
• github.com/rtyley/toy-android-ssh-agent - Maven

Since v1.47, Spongy Castle has been split into separate sub-jars that exactly mirror the matching Bouncy Castle artifacts (eg sc-light-jdk15on.jar, scpg-jdk15on.jar, etc), and it is important to ensure you include all the Spongy Castle jars required for what you're doing.

Full information on dependencies can be found at:

http://rtyley.github.com/spongycastle/#downloads

At minimum you'll need the sc-light-jdk15on.jar (the base lightweight-API implementation) and probably scprov-jdk15on.jar (the JCE wrapper around the lightweight-API). If you're using Maven then all this dependency-management stuff is taken care of for you.

The problematic dependencies you describe on javax.mail, javax.activation, etc, indicate that you might have chosen an incorrect jar (e.g. the every-single-library-component one, rather than the 'core provider' one) - as the scprov-jdk15on jar definitely doesn't have any of those weird dependencies, and runs happily on Android.

(disclaimer, I'm the maintainer of Spongy Castle, but I've had plenty of success reports from other users too!)

If you are using gradle, then you can just specify your dependencies in build.gradle file like this:

dependencies {
     ....
    compile 'com.madgag.spongycastle:core:1.54.0.0'
    compile 'com.madgag.spongycastle:prov:1.54.0.0'
    compile 'com.madgag.spongycastle:pkix:1.54.0.0'
    compile 'com.madgag.spongycastle:pg:1.54.0.0'

    }

You can find out the latest version of the library here.

Don't forget to insert it as a security provider in your app.

    static {
    Security.insertProviderAt(new org.spongycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider(), 1);
}