Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 22:22:46 -0800
Message-Id: <199702250622.WAA14386@puffin.eng.sun.com>
From: Marianne Mueller <mrm@eng.sun.com>
To: VERI.VERISBJ@MEMO.VOLVO.SE
Subject: Re: Signed applets
All of the pieces for what's needed to support DSA certificates for
JDK 1.1 signing aren't in place yet.
If you've read these (and if you've got JDK 1.1, final version),
> http://java.sun.com/security/signExample/
> http://java.sun.com/security/policy.html
then you are up to date on where we are with JDK 1.1. See also the
mini user's guide,
http://java.sun.com/security/usingJavakey.html
For now, you need to use javakey to generate certificates. We hope
that soon, you will be able to get certificates from one of the
recognized Certificate Authorities, for use with JDK 1.1 signatures.
If you interact with CA's today (Certificate Authorities), mention to
them that you would like to use JDK 1.1 digital signatures and
therefore would like them to support DSA certificates.
Also, you might be interested in the Q&A on our hypermail web site,
http://jeeves.javasoft.com:8080/hypermail/java-security-html
Marianne