Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 19:20:23 -0800
Message-Id: <199702120320.TAA24204@puffin.eng.sun.com>
From: Marianne Mueller <mrm@eng.sun.com>
To: kents@ti.com
Subject: Re: I am having trouble creating a certificate with 1.1 beta3...
In case this question is still pending ...
The issuer.cert field in the certificate directive file does
need to be a number. If you pass in a file name, then javakey
prints an error message about the format being wrong.
Our doc writer updated the javakey man page with this info:
issuer.cert
Specifies which of the issuer's certificates is to be used to
sign the certificate file, thereby authenticating the
subject's public key. Its value should be the number that
javakey previously assigned to the issuer's certificate when
it generated it (or imported it). You can see which numbers
javakey assigns to certificates by viewing the output of the
-ld or -li javakey option. Note: This issuer.cert property is
only required if the certificate being generated is not
self-signed. (A self-signed certificate is one for which
issuer.name equals subject.name.)