# Features

* All cryptographic operations are exposed through a small set of entry points:
  * `Bruce` — builder factories (`cipherBuilder()`, `signerBuilder()`, `verifierBuilder()`, `digestBuilder()`, `macBuilder()`)
  * `Keystores` — keystore loading, serialization, key and certificate retrieval, key generation
  * `Bytes` — universal I/O type for passing data in and getting results out
* No checked exceptions cluttering your code.
* No transitive dependencies. Zero. Zilch.
* Out of the box support for:
  * key stores
  * public, private and secret keys
  * certificates
  * digital signatures
  * symmetric and asymmetric encryption
  * message digesters
  * message authentication codes
  * different encodings: [Base64](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64), [Url](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding), [Mime](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME), [Hex](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal)
  * custom providers such as [Bouncy Castle](https://www.bouncycastle.org/java.html)
* Massively unit tested and documented.
* Open Source: you don't need to trust Bruce: you can [see for yourself](https://github.com/mcaserta/bruce) if you like what Bruce does.