From: mrm@doppio (Marianne Mueller)
Message-Id: <199612241706.JAA04434@puffin.eng.sun.com>
Subject: Re: javakey - confused documentation
To: cbd@zurich.ibm.com (Carl Binding)
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 09:06:34 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <4125640A:002BCB2D.00@notesmta.zurich.ibm.com> from "Carl Binding" at Dec 24, 96 09:05:27 am
You know who else is from UW ... Prof Felten of Princeton bug finding fame!
He was there after we were but he says he likes the "Steam Powered Turing
Machine."
> -- is SUN going after an SSL implementation in Java? or do you follow the
> SSLava lead? (www.phaos.com)
We are working on SSL in Java - an early server-side implementation
can be experimented with if you download a copy of our Java Server
from http://java.sun.com/products/java-server. Actually since you
are in Switzerland you can't download the version of SSL we have now
since right now we only have the "strong" crypto version,but, the server
team is planning a globally distributable version of the Java Server
with SSL in early 1997. (By March anyway.) But you can look at
the documentation online and get an idea for how that version of SSL
works with the other Java classes. Over time, we expect that SSL will
migrate into the JDK,but that migration path isn't laid out yet.
> -- what are SUN's ideas regarding certification and distribution of
> certificates?
It's too early to say how it will all play out,but,we are working
on the infrastructure for a pilot inhouse CA,and also, the Java
support needed so that people can do online web-based certificate
generation with the CA of choice. We are working on the plan for
that,but, by mid-1997 we expect to have some solutions deployed.
I'm cc'ing the mailing list since one of these days soon I'll create
a hypertext archive of the Q&A since many folks have the same questions.
By the way if you're interested in the Java server, a hypermail archive
of Q&A for that product is found at http://jeeves.javasoft.com:8080/
Merry Christmas -
Marianne