RE: Certificate chaining w/javakey generated DSA certificates

George Chung (gchung@openhorizon.com)
Tue, 16 Sep 1997 18:07:55 -0700

From: George Chung <gchung@openhorizon.com>
To: "'David Brownell'" <David.Brownell@Eng>,
Subject: RE: Certificate chaining w/javakey generated DSA certificates
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 18:07:55 -0700

On Tuesday, September 16, 1997 5:10 PM, David Brownell
[SMTP:David.Brownell@Eng.Sun.COM] wrote:
> > I understand that certificate chaining is not yet supported under JDK
> > 1.1.3 yet.
>
> However, you can implement it yourself as was done for JavaSoft's
> implementation of SSLv3. The APIs exist in the JDK, but at the
> "sun.*" level of classification (newly redefined to mean "don't
> even look, much less touch").

Thanks for the prompt reply.

Are there plans for future java interfaces to support certificate chaining
that a PKI service provider could/should provide an implementation for?

Thanks in advance,
George Chung
Open Horizon, Inc.