Re: JCE Code Signing Certificate

2005-10-28 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 16:45 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > >> In the meantime, it occurred to me that the certified key (including > >> the private key) would have to be included in the source package, > >> otherwise the package would fail to build from source. > >> > >> While I see nothing i

Re: JCE Code Signing Certificate

2005-10-28 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 09:51 +0200, Michael Koch wrote: > This is a big field which needs even bigger investigation. The free > runtimes can load them but signed jars are still not supported (or was > this fixed lately...). Your best action would be to just test it with > kaffe or gcj or whatev

Re: JCE Code Signing Certificate

2005-10-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Charles Fry: >> In the meantime, it occurred to me that the certified key (including >> the private key) would have to be included in the source package, >> otherwise the package would fail to build from source. >> >> While I see nothing in Sun's form that requires us to keep the private >> key

Re: JCE Code Signing Certificate

2005-10-12 Thread Charles Fry
> > This is a big field which needs even bigger investigation. The free > > runtimes can load them but signed jars are still not supported (or was > > this fixed lately...). Your best action would be to just test it with > > kaffe or gcj or whatever and report any bugs you find. > > In the meantim

Re: JCE Code Signing Certificate

2005-10-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Michael Koch: > This is a big field which needs even bigger investigation. The free > runtimes can load them but signed jars are still not supported (or was > this fixed lately...). Your best action would be to just test it with > kaffe or gcj or whatever and report any bugs you find. In the me

Re: JCE Code Signing Certificate

2005-10-12 Thread Michael Koch
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 04:01:03PM -0400, Charles Fry wrote: > > > In order to be trusted, the security provider must be signed with a > > > key that was certified by the JCE Code Signing Certification > > > Authority (see Step 5 of the document above). > > > > So why can't we ship trusted root ce

Re: JCE Code Signing Certificate

2005-10-04 Thread Florian Weimer
* Charles Fry: > Well, I may not entirely understand your question, but here is my > understanding of the situation, as supported by the document How to > Implement a Provider for the JavaTM Cryptography Extension[1]. Unfortunately, this document doesn't explain why the certificate is needed. >

Re: JCE Code Signing Certificate

2005-10-04 Thread Charles Fry
> > In order to be trusted, the security provider must be signed with a > > key that was certified by the JCE Code Signing Certification > > Authority (see Step 5 of the document above). > > So why can't we ship trusted root certificates for a Debian Code > Signing Certification Authority, or trus

Re: JCE Code Signing Certificate

2005-10-04 Thread Charles Fry
> > Can someone please comment on how we should proceed to obtain a JCE Code > > Signing Certificate for Debian? > > Why can't we just install a trusted certificate in our own packages? > > It's not clear to me who should own the private key corresponding to &

Re: JCE Code Signing Certificate

2005-10-04 Thread Florian Weimer
* Charles Fry: > I should also point out that this JCE Code Signing Certificate is > necessary not only to allow libbcprov-java to be used as a trusted > security provider, but also for me to package bcmail, bctsp, and bcpg > which are also part of Bouncy Castle. I can currently build

Re: JCE Code Signing Certificate

2005-10-04 Thread Charles Fry
I should also point out that this JCE Code Signing Certificate is necessary not only to allow libbcprov-java to be used as a trusted security provider, but also for me to package bcmail, bctsp, and bcpg which are also part of Bouncy Castle. I can currently build all of them, but the regression

JCE Code Signing Certificate

2005-09-30 Thread Charles Fry
Now that BouncyCastle[1] has been packaged for Debian[2], it is time for us to move forward with Arnaud's suggestion[3] that we obtain a JCE Code Signing Certificate[4] for Debian, in order to vouch for this and other JCE Security Providers that Debian may provide. The process is fairly str