I'm looking for an implementation/a library that handles X509
Certificates. I'm limited to JDK 1.1, so there is no way to use
java.security.cert.*.
Any help is appreciated!

I've got a client/server app that I'm working on where I've got the
client and server successfully communicating over either standard
sockets, or SSL. I'd like to provide a third option for using a shared
secret, and to that end I'm trying to wrap socket-based I/O streams with

Can someone explain how Java class sverifier verifies that a class is
free of errors?
Thanks
Vissu

I'm having trouble getting an HttpsURLConnection to work as expected.
I suspect I am missing something (possibly a great many things) and
would appreciate any insight that anyone could provide.
I have a simple servlet running in Tomcat that does nothing more than

I would like to hear opinion on my problem from those who
have been working on Java.
I am working on a small Java library to be used by a
number of products in my compay. The library contains bit

I am planning to use HTTP(S) (it uses SSL right?) for communication
between browser and the Servlet.  Can some one in the middle (hacker)
modify the data when it is transmitted on the network ? If modified,
will SSL be able to detect that ?

I finally found that SHA1withDSA signatures generated
by the Java security API are encoded using ASN1 rules,
which may lead to variable lenght of the encoded signature
(the signature itself is 40 bytes long but the length is variable

Does anyone know how to use Password Based Encryption with TripleDES?
Thanks,
Alex.
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Does anyone know about the existence of an open source implementation of
the XKMS specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/xkms/) or any efforts in
that direction? I know that VeriSign's Trust Services Integration Kit
contains a client-side implementation of XKMS v1.0 but I need the ...

I have been asked to do some maintenance work on a Java applet, and am
experiencing a problem with it;
The web page it is on is subject to user authentication, and when I
load up the page the browser asks me to login. So far so good.

Hi NG
I´m a bit desperate...
Does anyone know if its possible to read the Windows Registry with a JSP
Servlet ?

I need to create a secret key using the HMAC-MD5 algorithm and the IBM
JCE, then be able to export/import that key.
So first I create a key with the following method:
private static final String HMAC_MD5_ALGORITHM_NAME = "HmacMD5";