create test certificate

Well, it seems the only way to do it, without already having a certificate to import, is with a class in the sun package (and its associated warnings about support). Here an example:

private static void genKeyNStore( String alias, char[] password,

String outputFilename )

throws Exception

{

KeyStore keyStore = KeyStore.getInstance( "JKS" );

keyStore.load( null, password );

sun.security.x509.CertAndKeyGen keypair = new sun.security.x509.CertAndKeyGen("RSA", "MD5WithRSA" );

sun.security.x509.X500Name x500Name = new sun.security.x509.X500Name(

"IGEL RemoteManager", "IGEL Technology GmbH",

"IGEL Technology GmbH", "DE");

keypair.generate( 1024 );

PrivateKey privKey = keypair.getPrivateKey();

X509Certificate[] chain = new X509Certificate[1];

chain[0] = keypair.getSelfCertificate(x500Name, 7000*24*60*60);

keyStore.setKeyEntry(alias, privKey, password, chain);

OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream( outputFilename );

keyStore.store( out, password );

}

This has come from an earlier thread:

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=9&threadID=535212

There are KeyPairGenerators under java.security, but I have not, as yet, found a method to generate a Certificate from these. So nearly all of the can be performed with the java.security classes, excpet the actual certificate generation. You may wish to more fully investigate this, however.

masijade.a at 2007-7-14 22:14:30 >