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Re: Signed jar certification authorities


On Sep 14, 2006, at 8:35 PM, Ryan Hapgood wrote:

We release a product within signed jar files which have been certified by a downstream ValiCert certifier. Our jars are verified successfully using "Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_06-b05)" under Linux and Windows but using Apple's "Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_06-112)" the certifying root certificates are completely different and our jars are not validated.

Has anyone encountered this before?
Does anyone know why the certifying authorities are completely different between Sun & Apple's JREs?

First of all, I'm going on the assumption that you are not deploying a signed applet. The Java plugin validates against the system-wide set of root certificates in /Library/Keychains/X509Anchors, so that certificate should be there.

For all other deployments, Java uses the root certificates in .../Versions/<jdk version>/Home/lib/security/cacerts to validate certificates. Each platform is responsible for supplying its own set of root certificates, because we can't legally redistribute certificates that Sun has in their JDK/JRE download. We last re-synced the certificates in cacerts with Panther, but unfortunately, we haven't updated it for Tiger, and there are significantly more root certs in Tiger, as you are finding.

Are you distributing your product for in-house use or for sale to the public? If it's the former we can help you out fairly easily by running an application that will regenerate the cacerts with Tiger's root certs. There are possibly other solutions as well -- contact DTS and we should be able to help you out.

Scott

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Scott Kovatch
Apple Computer
Java Runtime Classes
Cleveland Hts, OH
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