Cryptlib Encrypted Object and Y2K Compliance

Cryptlib handles all date information using the ANSI/ISO C time format which does not suffer from Y2K problems. Although earlier versions of the X.509 certificate format do have Y2K problems, Cryptlib transparently converts the date encoded in certificates to and from the ANSI/ISO format, so Cryptlib users will never see this. Cryptlib's own time/date format is not affected by any Y2K problems, and Cryptlib itself conforms to the requirements in the British Standards Institutions DISC PD2000-1:1998 Y2K compliance standard.

Cryptlib's powerful object management interface provides the ability to add encryption and authentication capabilities to an application without needing to know all the low-level details which make the encryption or authentication work. The automatic object-management routines take care of encoding issues and cross-platform portability problems, so that a single function call is enough to export a public-key encrypted session key with all the associated information and parameters needed to recreate the session key on the other side of a communications channel, or to generate a digital signature on a piece of data. This provides a considerable advantage over other encryption toolkits which often require hundreds of lines of code and the manipulation of complex encryption data structures to perform the same task.