From: mrm@doppio (Marianne Mueller)
Message-Id: <199701031714.JAA29592@puffin.eng.sun.com>
Subject: Re: SSL support
To: sergek@lokitech.com (Serge Knystautas)
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 09:14:20 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <32CD3B5B.6D26@lokitech.com> from "Serge Knystautas" at Jan 3, 97 12:01:15 pm
You should download a copy of the Java Server,from
http://java.sun.com/products/java-server. It's an alpha2 binary release.
Beta and FCS are scheduled for early 1997 (I think the FCS is roughly
around the end of March.) The Java Server does have support for SSL.
The alpha2 release is a US-only release; the beta release will have a
global version too. You can also take a look at the Java Server APIs
at http://java.sun.com/products/java-server/alpha2/doc/apidoc/Package-sun-security.ssl.html
A hypermail list of discussion about the Java Server (formerly known
as Jeeves) can be seen at http://jeeves.javasoft.com:8080.
There is no announced plan about how/when SSL would migrate into the JDK,
but we recognize this is needed...
Marianne
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> Java Security Team,
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> We're architecting a system that needs to be able to access certain web
> sites whose pages are SSL encrypted. It seems with the classes provided
> in java.security.*, it should be relatively easy to extend the
> java.net.Socket class or even better, the java.net.URL(URLConnection),
> to allow Java to access https: URLs. I'd very much like to go ahead
> with a Java design, but since I don't have a time table for the coming
> Java security capabilities, I'm grudgingly forced to consider other
> architectures.
>
> Could you please pass along any and all information you have about SSL
> and your plans or third-party plans to integrate it into Java (either in
> the JDK or as an add-in)? Thank you very much.
> --
> Serge Knystautas
> Loki Technologies, Inc.
> 4811 Flanders Av.
> Kensington, MD 20895 USA
> Wrk: 1.301.942.3145
> Fax: 1.301.365.1873
> sergek@lokitech.com
> http://www.lokitech.com
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> <DT>Java Security Team,</DT>
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> <DT>We're architecting a system that needs to be able to access certain
> web sites whose pages are SSL encrypted. It seems with the classes
> provided in java.security.*, it should be relatively easy to extend the
> java.net.Socket class or even better, the java.net.URL(URLConnection),
> to allow Java to access https: URLs. I'd very much like to go ahead
> with a Java design, but since I don't have a time table for the coming
> Java security capabilities, I'm grudgingly forced to consider other architectures.</DT>
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> <DT> </DT>
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> <DT>Could you please pass along any and all information you have about
> SSL and your plans or third-party plans to integrate it into Java (either
> in the JDK or as an add-in)? Thank you very much.</DT>
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> <DT>--<BR>
> Serge Knystautas<BR>
> Loki Technologies, Inc.<BR>
> 4811 Flanders Av.<BR>
> Kensington, MD 20895 USA<BR>
> Wrk: 1.301.942.3145<BR>
> Fax: 1.301.365.1873<BR>
> sergek@lokitech.com<BR>
> http://www.lokitech.com<BR>
> </DT>
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