@techreport{TR-IC-99-06,
  number = {IC-99-06},
  author = {Alexandre M. Braga and Ricardo Dahab and Cecília M. F. Rubira},
  title = {A Meta-Object Library for Cryptography},
  month = {February},
  year = {1999}, 
  institution = {Institute of Computing, University of Campinas},
  note = {In English, 19 pages.
    \par\selectlanguage{english}\textbf{Abstract}
      This work describes a meta-object library and a reflective
      object-oriented framework for cryptography-based security, which
      focuses on three points: the easy reuse of cryptography-aware
      code, the easy composition of cryptographic services and the
      transparent addition of cryptography-based security to
      third-party code, from the application programmer's point of
      view. Such a framework is applicable to both third-party
      commercial-off- the-shelf applications and legacy systems, and
      is based on a reflective variation of a pattern language for
      cryptographic software we had proposed. We are using Guarana, a
      reflective variation for the Java programming language which
      encourages composition of meta-objetcs, to implement our
      framework.
  }
}