Re: [GNU Crypto] Re: [kaffe] missing features needed for HSQLDB 1.7.2

[Casey Marshall]

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On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 07:43:32PM +1000, Raif S. Naffah wrote:

(un-CC Dalibor, Ito, and Kaffe. They probably don't care about this)

> On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:48 am, Casey Marshall wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 02:27:22PM +0200, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> > > Ito Kazumitsu wrote:
> > > >Hi,
> > > >
> > > >I am trying to build the CVS version of hsqldb with kaffe
> > > >and have found that the following JDK 1.4 features are missing:
> > > >
> > > >javax.security.cert.*
> > > >javax.net.ssl.*
> > > >
> > > >   These are also missing in GNU Classpath.  I am afraid
> > > >   it is a long way before we can use these.
> > >
> > > javax.security.cert.* shouldn't be that hard to implement. It's
> > > basically two mostly abstract classes plus a handful of exceptions.
> > > And it's been deprecated from the start: "New applications should
> > > not use this package, but rather java.security.cert." ;)
> > >
> > > javax.net.ssl.* is a different beast altogether. I'm afraid that
> > > there is no free software implementation of this API, but I hope
> > > the Gnu Crypto developers may know more. So I've cc:ed them in this
> > > mail.
> >
> > Your wish is my command ;)
> >
> > I have been working on this very package, right now called Jessie:
> > <http://metastatic.org/source/jessie/>. The status now is that the
> > javax.net.ssl classes are implemented and may be complete, but the
> > actual SSL implementations have only just begun.
> >
> > The code is targeted at Classpath (it requires classes in the
> > gnu.java.security package) and will likely use GNU Crypto for its
> > crypto algs (in which case it will have to wait until we get RSA and
> > DH).
> 
> which RSA classes are you referring to?
> 

Encryption is used in key exchange, and (I think) RSA signatures with
PKCS #1 v1.5 encoding (the other one, not PSS) is used to verify
certificates.

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