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Does anyone know of any open source Java tools for allowing me to be my own
Certificate Authority. I've had a look around the Internet, but everything I
found was non-Java stuff like OpenSSL (which I'm sure is good, but I'd
prefer Java).

Failing that, do the javax.security classes allow me to sign certificates? I
couldn't find anything myself.

TIA

Digby


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Digby wrote:

> Does anyone know of any open source Java tools for allowing me to be my own
> Certificate Authority. I've had a look around the Internet, but everything I
> found was non-Java stuff like OpenSSL (which I'm sure is good, but I'd
> prefer Java).
>
> Failing that, do the javax.security classes allow me to sign certificates? I
> couldn't find anything myself.
>
> TIA
>
> Digby
>
>
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>
>

Well, Java provides a nice suite of certificate creation and management
tools. You'll still have to register with Verisign or some other
certificate authority to be fully authenticated.

Here's the security docs for Java:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/....html#security


Mark McKay
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