# Re: RSA-based certificate for Netscape Communicator

Jan Luehe (Jan.Luehe@Eng)
Wed, 7 Jan 1998 10:05:50 -0800 (PST)

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    Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 10:05:50 -0800 (PST)

    From: Jan Luehe <Jan.Luehe@Eng>

    Subject: Re: RSA-based certificate for Netscape Communicator

    To: java-security@web1.javasoft.com, MARTIN.CIUCHINI@LHSYSTEMS.COM

Martin:

> We urgently need to test our Intranet Java application with the Netscape
> Communicator browser. Therefore we need a free RSA-based certificate and
> we do not want to buy a certificate from Verisign or another CA just for
> testing!
> My questions:
> 1. Is it possible to create a RSA-based certificate for Netscape with
> specific Java API (i.e. JDK 1.2)?
> 2. If yes, do you have some example source code?
> 3. If not, what is the best and fastest way to obtain or generate such
> certificate?

Please check

https://digitalid.verisign.com/TestGetCSR.html

for VeriSign's Test Server Digital ID enrollment.
This will allow you to request an RSA test certificate from
VeriSign - at no charge!

You have to submit your public key (for which you are going to
request a certificate) in form of a PKCS#10 formatted
Certificate Signing Request (CSR).

You may use "keytool" (provided in JDK1.2) for generating an RSA
keypair and CSR. To do this, you would have to supply your
own Crpytographic Provider for RSA (the default provider that
comes with the JDK only supports DSA).

Thanks,

Jan

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