Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:04:45 -0800
Message-Id: <199701230504.VAA01280@puffin.eng.sun.com>
From: Marianne Mueller <mrm@eng.sun.com>
To: kanda@openhorizon.com
Subject: Re: JEC APIs
Hi,
Sorry I gave the impression that we were ready with some X509 APIs;
we're not! The implementation that we are using (with javakey) in
sun.security is not a committed interface. That is, the APIs
described there aren't APIs that we will support or encourage people
to use. Rather, we would like to ask that you not rely on any APIs or
implementation that is in the sun.* package.
For the next release, we are committed to supporting certificate
management APIs that will support X509v3. The timetable/schedule
for the next release hasn't been published yet, but it will definitely
be a 1997 release.
For now, I hope you can use the javakey tool to create and import
keys and certificates.
In what ways do you want to use X509 APIs? Are you interested
in building certificate management tools?
Thanks again for the very helpful feedback - it seems there might
be a bug in JDK 1.1 beta 3. We're investigating this. What platform
are you using? (I don't see this bug on Solaris and I thought perhaps
you are using a PC platform.)
Marianne
p.s. We do not develop the Commerce APIs. Contact Ted Goldstein,
tedg@eng.sun.com, for more info about that. Also, see their
web page at http://java.sun.com/commerce.
> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 18:33:49 -0800
> From: Kandasamy Muniasamy <kanda@openhorizon.com>
> CC: kmuniasamy@openhorizon.com
> X-URL: http://www.javasoft.com/people/mrm/index.html
>
> Hello Marianne,
>
> I send my review comments on java 1.1 security
> yesterday. Thanks for your prompt response.
> I wanted to find out if the commerce apis are
> developed in your group.
>
> Also I would like to get some documents on
> x509 certificates class. You mentioned that
> these are not available as part of the regular
> api docs distribution.It looks like certificates
> are in 1.1 beta3 not in beta2.
>
> Yesterday I downloaded beta3. DSA signature
> stuff raised an exception math.BigInteger - unknow
> class or something. Then I reverted to 1.1 beta2.
>
> Would appreciate any help on getting the docs on
> certificate class.
>
> Thanks
> kandasamy
>