I have a certificate and a private key.  I used keytool to create a
keystore with the certificate and alias of "tomcat".  keytool does not
seem to provide a way to import a private key.
How can you import a private key into tomcat keystore.

We have an applet that is signed using an RSA key.
It used to work fine apparently but I cannot get it to work.
When the socket attempts to connect, we get the following exception:
Error: access denied (java.net.SocketPermission 127.0.0.1:0 connect,resolve)

How to use the public key of RSA to decrypt? What command should I use?

Is there a trick to get a Cipher instance to use the stream cipher RC4?
When I try to get it, I get a "NoSuchAlgorithmException: Cannot find any
provider supporting RC4", even though it says in the JCE Reference Guide
for JDK 1.4 that it is available.

I'm working on a webapp including several servlets. I have set up a user
authentication mechanism checking user accounts in a database. This works
fine but the user should remain logged in until he logs out explicitly or
leaves the web application to another page. I tried to use the ...

I want to provide a solution where i have one jar-archive where the
applet itself and all dialogs or what ever are in it and one
jar-archive where i have my utiliy-classes which provides a
SocketConnection for example. To use the SocketConnection the

i'm realizing a p2p system with rmi and i still don't understand in which
way
to manage permissions by policy; every node makes avaible some resources by
rmi

I am Aravind.Can someone suggest some Java and .NET IDEs that have
features which would help in dealing with different security issues
such as buffer overflow,SQL injection,cross site scripting etc...?.
Aravind

I have an object which implements Serializable, and have the
serialVersionUID
generated by serialver. When I have it, I put it in a SealedObject to
encrypt

I have problem with using of JSSE. Especially with secure sockets. My
problem is described in the next paragraph.
I have captured the communication between server and client side. And
it works that way when I sent data just from client side then the

I already posted questions concerning this subject in former time in
other newsgroups, but there was no satisfying help yet. So you are my
last chance.
I wrote two Java-Applications that shall communicate over a JSSE

I first posted this on comp.lang.java.programmer but to no avail.
Our program connects to the License Generator (the Java-based server running
on our website host) via URLConnection like this:
String _url = "http://gestalt.com/license/";

I am working on a small application where I have a simpl ServerSocket
waiting for incomminc connections. If during a connection a certain
keyword is received, then the connection should be TLS secured. The
procedure is quite similar to the SMTP STARTTLS command.

Hi folks!!
I'm new to SSL and I've been working arround for 3 days to adapt my servlets
to HTTPS.
I've correctly configured jakarta-tomcat 4.1.30 as shown in

Can we import PKCS#12 certs to a JKS format keystore and use it
normally by an alias (just the way w can use a PEM or DER cert) ?
Or, can we change a PKCS#12 format cert to a DER format cert ?
Thanks in Advance.