Re: From Madhukar, BFL Software Ltd, Re: java.security package

Marianne Mueller (mrm@doppio)
Fri, 27 Dec 1996 08:29:06 -0800 (PST)

From: mrm@doppio (Marianne Mueller)
Message-Id: <199612271629.IAA17135@puffin.eng.sun.com>
Subject: Re: From Madhukar, BFL Software Ltd, Re: java.security package
To: bflint@plutonium.bflsl.soft.net
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 08:29:06 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <32C1E600.68E0@plutonium.bflsl.soft.net> from "bflint@plutonium.bflsl.soft.net" at Dec 26, 96 08:12:09 am

Hi,

Yes, you do need to get a certificate for yourself (or for
your company) to help you issue certificates for individuals in
your company. We are still working on the Certificate Authority
partnerships that will help us in this, and we are also working on
the administrative tools and policy tools that are needed. We hope
to have this sorted out by the end of January. For now, you can
experiment with javakey. Please take a look at our documentation at
http://java.sun.com/security, especially "Using Javakey", "Policy
Recommendations", and the man pages for javakey and for jar.

Marianne
JavaSoft engineering, security

>
> Hello Sir,
> I had downloaded JDK 1.1 from the JavaSoft site two days ago.
> I am facing some problems in the security aspects and would appreciate
> it if you could clarify my doubts.
>
> I want to generate key pairs and certificates for other employees
> of my company, in order to control access to internal applications,
> using the javakey command.
> To do this do I need a certificate for myself from any external
> certifying authority?
> If so where do I get it from.
>
> Hoping that you will kindly help solve my problems,
>
> Thanking you,
>
> Madhukar .R
> BFL Software Ltd,
> Bangalore,
> India.
>