Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 11:37:09 -0800
From: mrm@doppio (Marianne Mueller)
Message-Id: <199701231937.LAA02011@puffin.eng.sun.com>
To: kmuniasamy@openhorizon.com
Subject: Re: JEC APIs
I understand exactly -- we do intend to provide the cert methods
for exactly what you describe, but unfortunately we're just not
there yet. Especially the encode/decode for ASN.1 stuff is not
fun to reimplement if you don't have to!
I'll try to reproduce your bug on an NT platform -- I thought it might
be a platform-specific bug. The math support was recently enhanced in
a major way for JDK1.1 so that's the background of what might be going on.
Marianne
> From kmuniasamy@openhorizon.com Thu Jan 23 10:12:57 1997
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> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 10:09:36 -0800
> To: Marianne Mueller <mrm@Eng>
> From: Kandasamy Muniasamy <kmuniasamy@openhorizon.com>
> Subject: Re: JEC APIs
> Cc: jmoreh@openhorizon.com
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> In terms of certificates, we would like to be able to interpret the
certificates
> we created (with javakey) using X509 classes. May be we could write an
> implementation using the Certificate interface in JDK. I thought why to
> reinvent the wheel if there is something already.
>
> When it comes to using the keys, we create public and private keys
> using javakey, and read those files and pass the contents to
> PrivateKey() and PublicKey() to instantiate them. We were looking
> for something in those lines for certificates.
>
> Regarding the bug in JDK 1.1 beta3/security package, the platform
> I tried is WinNT.
>
> Thanks again.
> Kandasamy