Re: javakey -ic

Marianne Mueller (mrm@doppio)
Fri, 17 Jan 1997 13:54:44 -0800

Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 13:54:44 -0800
From: mrm@doppio (Marianne Mueller)
Message-Id: <199701172154.NAA00547@puffin.eng.sun.com>
To: ulrich.kriegel@isst.fhg.de
Subject: Re: javakey -ic

Hi Ulrich,

This does seem to be a bug, relating to importing keys into
the identity db. We'll try to fix this for the final version
of JDK 1.1. For now, I guess you need to use one identity database
for generating and storing keys of all your users.

Marianne

> From ulrich.kriegel@isst.fhg.de Thu Jan 16 05:37:22 1997
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> From: "E. Ulrich Kriegel" <ulrich.kriegel@isst.fhg.de>
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> Hello there,
> I have a problem importing certificates in my identity.db.
> we have JDK-1.1-beta2 installed on one of our hosts.
> In my account I used javakey as described to create a signer, a keypair
> and a certificate. The same we did for a second accound.
> For the identity of the secound account a signer was created in my local
> identity.db.
> Trying to import the public key of that identity the following error
> occurs:
> javakey -ik spu spu_pub
> class of key: class sun.security.provider.DSAPublicKey
> Error: [Signer]spu[identitydb.obj][not trusted] is not a SUN identity.
>
> javakey -ic spu spu.X509
> cannot only add certificates to SUN identities
>
> Sorry for bothering you with such stupid problems, but do not see what
> we dir wrong. Any hints are welcome.
> Yours
> -- ulrich
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