# Re: javakey and Communicator

Charlie Lai (Charlie.Lai@Eng)
Mon, 13 Oct 1997 10:59:40 -0800 (PDT)

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    From: Charlie.Lai@Eng (Charlie Lai)

    Message-Id: <199710131759.KAA00499@angeles.eng.sun.com>

    Subject: Re: javakey and Communicator

    To: trentini.fabio@mail.globalnet.ch (Fabio Trentini)

    Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 10:59:40 -0800 (PDT)

    In-Reply-To: <34423164.8989BCFF@mailsp.globalnet.ch> from "Fabio Trentini" at Oct 13, 97 03:34:13 pm

hi,

> Is there a way to use Certificates issued over javakey in Netscape
> Communicator directly ?

here's a message i found in netscape's security newsgroup.
for more information on signed objects in netscape:
http://developer.netscape.com/software/signedobj/index.html

charlie

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Subject: Re: Netscape - I love you
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 16:14:26 -0700
From: Daniel Veditz <dveditz@netscape.com>
Organization: Netscape Communications Corporation, Mozilla Division
Newsgroups: netscape.security
References:

Michael Lysaght wrote:
> Anyway, I'm creating my own certificate using javakey. I end up with
> a .509 file. Is this the file I'm supposed to import as a certificate ?

Sun's tools do not support the same encryption algorithms we do. You
need to get a certificate from a commercial provider or set up your own
Certificate Server. Make sure the certificate you get/produce is
enabled for "code signing" -- VeriSign's Class 1 certs are NOT.

Once you have an object signing cert then get the "JAR Packager Command
Line" tools from us and use "zigbert" to sign your code. Sun's tools
will not work.

-Dan Veditz

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