Like others I've seen lots of people asking similar question, and
nobody answers, so this must be one of the great unknowns, but just to
try every avenue, I thought I'd post a message.
I am trying to make a soap call over ssl. Apache's soap library, ibm

I'm a beginner of Java security.
Is it possible to get Public Key and Private Key from a PKCS12
certificate by Java program?
How can I do it?

  I'm trying to edit the java.policy file to grant full permisions to
an unsigned applet I'm developing.
  If I just write:
  grant {

Could someone please explain the logic behind giving the cacerts file
its own password not related to any user password in the system!?  It
creates an administrative nightmare, and raises the question how often
in practice do administrators change the password on the file from

I am currently playing around with encryption in Java and I do have to
say that I am a newbie in the field of cryptography.
Trying some encryption with RSA I faced some problems... However, this
is what I want to do:

Is it possible to launch an RMI-using application with Java Web Start,
without using <security> <all-permissions/> </security>? The program
doesn't do anything that should require getting the users' permission.
I like being able to assure users that my Java Web Start-launched

We use the Microsoft SDK for Java 4.0 signcode utility.
When we sign our cab file, a Gui prompt springs up and
asks for the Private Key password.
Is there a way (or another utility) that will let us

If I have a PublicKey and a PrivateKey objects,
how can I verify that the two are actually a key
pair?
Another related question: If I have a PrivateKey object,

Can someone point me to any place (or any book) where
there is explanation (or tutorial) on how X.509
certificate extensions are used in real-life
applications?

Hi Netscape gurus,
I'ne just installed Netscape 7.0 to my Windows PC and I'm trying to
sign JavaScripts, but get errors right on the beginning. Can anyone
tell me what am I doing wrong?

After looking at the provider capabilities of jdk1.4, it looks like
KeyPairGenerator can accept algorithms that are not in the Cipher's
list of acceptable algorithms.
KeyPairGenerator: [RSA, DSA ImplementedIn, DSA, 1.2.840.10040.4.1,

is there a possibility to avoid the message in WebStart "Applet need
unlimited access to your local computer and network" for certificated
applets after you updated it.
With the JRE and a Browser you can trust applets from the same

Simple question... sorry..
I'm trying to encrypt a string with a private key (retrieved from
KeyStore - that I created using keytool). So that I can send the
public key to the client to decrypt the string.

I need to extract Public Key as byte[] from a given certificate.
I have a certificate in a file named "testca.cer".
Using getPublicKey() method I get the public key and print it out in
HEX format.

-- Java app - JDK 1.4.1_03
Uses a class to decode comma separated values from a text file - (From Java
Cookbook).
Works fine locally and not signed to run with JWS.