# Re: Initializing DSA keys

Eric Rescorla (ekr@rtfm.com)
Mon, 24 May 1999 09:51:45 -0700

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    Message-Id: <199905241651.JAA88238@romeo.rtfm.com>

    To: Jan Luehe <luehe@laguna.eng.sun.com>

    Subject: Re: Initializing DSA keys

    Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 09:51:45 -0700

    From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>

Jan,
Thanks for the quick response.

> We provide so-called "key factories" for what you are trying
> to do.
[...]
I'm actually using Cryptix and JDK 1.1.7 (FreeBSD doesn't have a port for 1.2
yet) so a lot of this stuff isn't available to me.

In any case, I've found a workaround by subclassing DSAPrivateKey
and providing a constructor that takes the encoded form. A little tasteless,
but it works.

-Ekr
[Eric Rescorla ekr@rtfm.com]

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