Re: Signing certificates

Jan Luehe (luehe@laguna.eng.sun.com)
Wed, 22 Jul 1998 10:03:26 -0700 (PDT)

Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 10:03:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jan Luehe <luehe@laguna.eng.sun.com>
Subject: Re: Signing certificates
To: java-security@java.Sun.COM, r.osborne@cs.ucl.ac.uk

Richard:

> I am implementing a PKC system using Java 1.2 for an educational
> project.
>
> Is there any way using Java to sign certificates so that I can set up a
> process as a Certification Authority ?
> Surely there must be something within Java that can be set up to respond
> to a 'csr' - certificate signing request.

Currently, there is no such API exposed at the Java level
(in the java.security.cert package).

Jan