java.security & Being my own Certificate Authority

[Digby]

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

 

[Mark McKay]

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

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/tooldocs/tools.html#security


Mark McKay