# Creating x509 certificates

Ron Repking (repking@isaserv.com)
Mon, 02 Mar 1998 12:15:11 -0600

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    Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 12:15:11 -0600

    From: Ron Repking <repking@isaserv.com>

    To: java-security@web1.javasoft.com

    Subject: Creating x509 certificates

For vendors that wish to be their own Certificate Authority, there
doesn't seem to be a way to create x509 certificates in the JDK 1.2. We
were using the class sun.security.x509.CertAndKeyGen in the JDK 1.1, but
that class seems to have been hidden in the bowels of the documentation
and not intended for public usage in the JDK 1.2. The KeyTool allows
you to create certificates from the command line which apparently uses
this class under the covers. Any suggestions on what API we should use
for creating certificates at runtime in a Java application would be
appreciated.

Thanks,
Ron.

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Ron Repking - Principal
ISA Services, Inc.
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www.isaserv.com
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