# Cannot generate a Certificate

Julian Triggs (juliant@genasys.co.uk)
Fri, 28 Aug 1998 14:06:26 +0100

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Hi at Sun Security, Hope you can help with a frustrating problem...

I need to utilise the trusted applet mechanism and am getting to grips
with javakey.
However I am experiencing a catch 22 when attempting to generate a
Certificate...

In the directive file:
If I comment out the issuer.cert directive ( for self Certification )
javakey fails with the error message:

"issuer.cert must be specified in the directive file"

If I supply issuer.cert=1 in the directive file, javakey fails with the
error message:

"No such cert: 1 for issuer.....

I have only just started on this and created identitydb.obj for the
first time so I would not expect any prior certificates to exist. The
documentation states that issuer.cert is optional but javakey seems to
insist upon it. So I cannot generate any certificates.

The javakey.exe I am running is from jdk1.1.6 and is sized at 5120 bytes
and created June 10 1998

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