# Possibly silly question. . .

Frank Yellin (Frank.Yellin@eng.sun.com)
Fri, 12 Mar 1999 17:30:16 -0800

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    Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 17:30:16 -0800

    Message-Id: <199903130130.RAA11143@pan.eng.sun.com>

    From: Frank Yellin <Frank.Yellin@eng.sun.com>

    To: java-security@java.sun.com

    Subject: Possibly silly question. . .

I'm not sure if this is a silly question or not. . . .

I wanted to create a signature, signed by a CA, into keytool.

#1)
I could visit www.verisign.com, and get them to generate a signature for
me. Netscape happily did the hard work for me.
But I couldn't figure out how to get either verisign or netscape
to print this out in a format that could then be imported by keytool.

#2)
I could use keytool to create a key pair, and then print a
self-signed certificate. But what am I supposed to do with it? How do
I get Verisign (or someone else) to sign a signature that I've generated?
I couldn't figure out how to do this. . . .

Am I missing something obvious?

== Frank

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