Quotation from JavaTM Cryptography Architecture API Specification & Reference http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/security/CryptoSpec.html#KeyManagement
"It implements the keystore as a file, using a proprietary keystore type (format) named "JKS"." On 7/19/06, Geir Magnusson Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mikhail Loenko wrote: > A long ago we agreed that providers go into a separate module. But > now I think it's might be not very reasonable. Well, if it gets to be an issue, we can switch. Do you remember the reasons? > > Sun keeps certificates in its own proprietary format (JKS), while we have > BKS from Bouncy Castle, so files will have to be converted. I can do this > next week It's proprietary? Grrr. I would be nice if people could use their existing root cert stores w/ us. You sure? :) > > Thanks, > Mikhail > > 2006/7/19, Geir Magnusson Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> >> Tim Ellison wrote: >> > Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: >> >> I'm integrating HARMONY-536, the JSSE provider. Two things: >> >> >> >> 1) it's contributed to go into x-net, but the package namespace is >> >> >> >> o.a.h.security.provider.jsse >> >> >> >> so I wonder if this would be better off in the security module. If >> not, >> >> we are stuck because we don't have a 'negative' patternset for jar >> >> packaging, so it's getting sucked into security jar right now >> anyway :) >> > >> > IMHO it should be in x-net. Can't you rename the package? >> > >> >> Of course. Something was going to get moved, just wanted to see any >> other opinions.. >> >> >> >> 2) I have a little test proggie that shows that it's negotiating w/ >> the >> >> other side, but given we have no cacerts, it whines and gives up. >> (It's >> >> a reasonable whine...) Lazily and naively, I threw the cacerts from >> >> Sun's JRE into jre/lib/security and prayed, but the security >> deities are >> >> not smiling on me today. So, where does/what format/etc/etc should >> our >> >> root cert file go? >> > >> > Dunno. I know you were just playing, but AIUI the use of root >> > certificates for popular CA's cost $'s don't they? >> >> I didn't think so. I thought that they gave the root certs away because >> the value of a cert provider is directly proportional to the amount of >> software out there that can understand it's certs... >> >> > >> > Hopefully Boris will enlighten us to the format used. >> > >> > Regards, >> > Tim >> > >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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