Can I use latest BouncyCastle provider on Android?

Question

I am writing the app for Android 1.6.
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to use latest Bouncy Castle provider (version 1.46) instead of old one contained in SDK?
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Answer 1

You should be able to at least use the lightweight crypto library. Look for the lcrypto-jdk* on the releases page. I confess I don't have a android test environment available to verify any of this. Note that this version of the library does not use the JCE API.