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Posted to dev@harmony.apache.org by Wim Vander Schelden <wi...@fixnum.org> on 2008/04/05 10:48:24 UTC

Re: SSL connections and cacerts

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Stepan Mishura <st...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 3/19/08, Wim Vander Schelden <wi...@fixnum.org> wrote:
>
>
> Theoretically, keytool is used to create the file with required
> certificates and the file is placed to default location (i.e.
> lib/security) and after that everything should work. But practically I
> don't know if it work or not - I didn't try it by myself and as I
> recall there were intentions and promises to create acceptable cacerts
> file for Hamony but I don't remember any report about the progress or
> failure. Also there was suggestion to convert existing cacerts file in
> JKS format into BKS format but that got stuck in legal
> questions/doubts. You may aslo wish to try to use SUN's provider
> (which understands JSK format) and JKS cacerts file with Harmony (I
> think if is work then this would be very exciting!)
>
> So you are free to experiment! And if you have any results please let us
> know.
>
> Thanks,
> Stepan.


Alright, but the keytool asks me to enter a password, and I assume I have to
use something specified by harmony so that it can be read without entering
the password to make an SSL connection?

kind regards,

Wim