Securely yours,
                                  Remembering the pain of the past.   After
the committment between Microsoft and Sun. Who is takng care of the security
protocol for applets.  The Sun plugin  or the Microsoft VM?

I have written up a proposal for a tool to automatically update root
certificates.
See http://mindprod.com/projrootcertinstaller.html
It would be nice if we could get all the code signing authorities to

I have a weird problem with an applet.
It doens't generate some of the solutions, it should generate.
And these missing solutions are generated, if I execute the same
method in an console application.

I've read that if I'd want to check if someone has tampered with my applet,
I'd have to use a message diggest or a digital signature to check if it's
the original one.
But how would this be implemented? Is it something that the JVM does for

My java app gets an X509 certificate out of an XML signature, and I
want to verify that the certificate is signed by any one of several
trusted CAs.
If we assume that all relevant CA certificates are stored in the

Any good recent summaries of Java ports to linux OS?
How good are the crypto implementations therein?
specifically how good are the crypto RNG s?
- Mitch Gallant

i am experienced using java, but never had to look at the security
package before.  i am trying to implement an online credit card
processing interface, which requires that i send a "fingerprint" with
my request.  it says the fingerprint should be an md-5 hash of x, y,

I just noticed that one has to be careful about programatically verifying
signed JAR archives.
The constructors for JarFile and JarInputStream indicate that signature
verification is checked (with suitable flag).

once again, does anybody know, what´s the best encryption algorithm? I
mean, DES, RSA, etc...
What ist the provider i need for this?
Thank you very much,

has anybody a short sample for encrypting with RC4 witch BouncyCastle?
Best regards,
thomas

I've been looking everywhere but can't find a solution to this:
I have an applet that prints to a barcode printer.  Unfortunately as
this applet is served from a silverstream (ver 3.7.5) server I can't
just use a jar file and sign it (because silverstream just will not

I got this weird problem when trying to transfer my keys from a p12
keystore to a uber keystore (BC provider). I wrote a small chunk of code to
do this and test out. In the code, after transfering the keys and
certificates over to an uber keystore, I can re-open it in another

Hi all...
I need some help for certificate.
I currently develop a project for my job and we use certificate
authentification.

I am planing to deploy my application using Java Webstart.
To be sure that the user does not manipulate my code and
configurationfiles I whant to sign my jar files.
As I have understood Java Webstart will not start the application if

I have obtained a free trial certificate from Thawte. I also got the
root certificate. I obtained the certificate by generating the CSR via
j2sdk1.4.0 keytool. Had no problems.
Now I am trying to install the certificates, and it says can't find