Im using the latest version of Cryptix with JDK 1.3.1_01. When ever I
encrypt a message with a key the cpu utilization spikes about 10%. Ive
tested this on Windows 2000 as well as Solaris 8. Is this normal?

Evaluating a (pretty old) security tutorial from Sun, I encounter a
very strange problem.
In the example, an applet trying to write a file on local disk is
loaded from the website of Sun, at first without any security policy:

I have an application which also can run as an applet. It uses
sun.misc.BASE64Decoder.
But when running it as an applet, I get
Java(TM) Plug-in: Version 1.4.2_01

does this provider support certificates? Where can I get more informations?
www.cryptix.org is dead!

  Is there an easy way to encrypt/decrypt a String value. What I want
to do is to save an password in a XML file, but that should be encrypte
before it would be saved.
  Has anyone a suggestion?

does anybody know where I can find simple samples of X.509 certificates? I
would like to create certficates und verify certifate chains, but i am not
sure how to develop certificates, because I don't know which things in a
certficate are important and which things are not important. ...

wanted to make a test to encrypt/decrypt using RSA.
ia managed to create the public and private key but have problem using
them to encrypt anything.
i try to create a Cipher (as one can do using DES), but then i get: