On 2010-04-30 10:25 PST, Marsh Ray wrote: > On 4/30/2010 12:17 PM, Nelson B Bolyard wrote: >>> Unfortunately, Sun's JRE requires signed jars for JCE providers, >>> so the Mozilla signed jar file is pretty useful. >> Signed bits may be available directly from Sun. It's also conceivable >> that IBM or some other other big proponents of Java may be able to sign >> those bits if they find it in their interest to do so. > > Perhaps it would be possible to install your own root cert and sign it > yourself? > > Probably not the simplest procedure. If you get it working it would be > nice to post a description for others. > > - Marsh
Interesting thought. NSS even includes a JAR signing tool that was originally written for this purpose (among others). But I suspect that Sun's JVM requires that the signature come from one of a very select few roots any not just any old trusted root. Hope I'm wrong! -- dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
