# Re: Question about java security in JDK 1.2

Jan Luehe (luehe@laguna.eng.sun.com)
Tue, 10 Nov 1998 10:53:46 -0800 (PST)

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Stefan:

> Can I generate a certificate request or a certificate authority without useing
keeytool . Exists special class that provide me methods for doing this?
> If i want to make an application which generate a CA the application must
contain keytool or not?

There are no such "java.*" classes in the JDK.
The classes that provide the functionality you are looking
for are in "sun.*" packages, which you are not supposed to
call directly.

We might provide this functionality as a separate java extension
package in the future.

Jan

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