Explore the capabilities of Apache Commons Crypto in this 24-minute conference talk by Dapeng Sun from Intel. Learn about this cross-platform cryptographic library optimized with AES-NI and hardware random number generator. Discover how it outperforms JCE by an order of magnitude, offering Java developers strong and high-performance AES encryption/decryption. Delve into the library's origins, recent community improvements, its role in accelerating data encryption, and future development plans. Gain insights from Dapeng Sun, a software engineer at Intel specializing in big data security and optimization, who has contributed to various Apache projects including Sentry, Aullxio, and Commons Crypto.