Re: rsa certificates

Jan Luehe (Jan.Luehe@Eng)
Fri, 3 Apr 1998 12:10:50 -0800 (PST)

Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 12:10:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Jan Luehe <Jan.Luehe@Eng>
Subject: Re: rsa certificates
To: java-security@web1.javasoft.com, remz_@hotmail.com

Remz:

> does the jdk 1.1.5 or jce support encryption if the client/browser uses
> an rsa (verisign) certificate? If not, what are your plans for this
> support? will this be a feature in jdk 1.2 or future realeases of jce?

JCE 1.2 supports all the classes and interfaces for RSA, with no
actual implementation. The next release of RSA Data Security's
"Jsafe" toolkit will be a cryptographic service provider to the
Java Crypto Architecture (crypto classes in JDK 1.2 + JCE 1.2),
so may get support for RSA from them.

Jan