Re: [GNU Crypto] JKS and reverse engineering

[Raif S. Naffah]

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hello Casey,

On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 09:03 pm, Casey Marshall wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I've been working on an implementation of the JKS keystore algorithm,
> which is Sun's proprietary keystore format. I have done this by
> reverse engineering Sun's implementation.
>
> What is the position here with regard to reverse engineering?

can you explain what you mean by reverse-engineering?

i'm looking at the license text that comes with the J2SE and i notice, 
for example, in article 3.0 LICENSE RESTRICTIONS, section 3.2:

"...
3.2 Except as otherwise provided by law, Licensee may not
modify or create derivative works of the Licensed Software,
or reverse engineer, disassemble or decompile binary
portions of the Licensed Software, or otherwise attempt to
derive the source code from such portions."


>... If
> there is no problem then should GNU Crypto include this class?
>
> (Right now it would have to go into GNU Crypto and not Classpath,
> since it requires javax.crypto.EncryptedPrivateKeyInfo)
>
> The implementation will be available from here:
>
>       <http://metastatic.org/source/JKS.java>
>
> Cheers.

- -- 
cheers;
rsn
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