Re: Classpath 0.98 & jks

2009/11/12 Arigead <[email protected]>:
> Hello All,
>    sorry new here and haven't had time to lurk for a while to see the
> lie of the land.
>
> I'm trying to run Jxta on Jamvm 1.5.3 with Classpath 0.98. I'm getting
> an error because of jks security not being found. I'll post the error
> I'm getting at the end of this email.
>
> A bit of searching on the Internet gives me a few posts by somebody with
> a similar problem [1] & [2]. I can't find any responses and solutions to
> this problem.
>
> I'm not sure how to get around this issue. I'm sure that there are many
> implementations of this security algorithm and I wonder can a lump of
> code be added included into the JRE or can source code be added to
> classpath. I mean there could I, if I had a clue ;-) add the necessary
> code into classpath source? I'd prefer if I could pull in something like
> BouncyCastle, although I'm not sure it would solve the problem as I'm
> not sure it implements this functionality.
>
> I'm not great with Java I'm afraid so I'm not sure that a BounceyCastle
> could be used to implement functionality that is being requested of the JRE.
>
> Sorry for a newbie post and thanks a million for any advice that anybody
> can offer.
>
>
> [1]
> http://old.nabble.com/Problem-in-using-SSL-%28secure-socket%29-with-classpath-0.98-and-Jamvm-1.5.3-td23997596.html
> [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg15120.html
>
>
>
>
> Caused by: java.security.KeyStoreException: jks
>   at java.security.KeyStore.getInstance(KeyStore.java:203)
>   at java.security.KeyStore.getInstance(KeyStore.java:130)
>   at
> net.jxta.impl.membership.pse.CMKeyStoreManager.<init>(CMKeyStoreManager.java:148)
>   at
> net.jxta.impl.membership.pse.PSEKeyStoreManagerFactory$PSEKeyStoreManagerFactoryDefault.getInstance(PSEKeyStoreManagerFactory.java:143)
>   ...24 more
> Caused by: java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException: Algorithm [jks] of
> type [KeyStore] from provider
> [gnu.javax.security.auth.callback.GnuCallbacks: name=GNU-CALLBACKS
> version=2.1] is not found
>   at gnu.java.security.Engine.getInstance(Engine.java:191)
>   at gnu.java.security.Engine.getInstance(Engine.java:105)
>   at java.security.KeyStore.getInstance(KeyStore.java:188)
>   ...27 more
>
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jks is not a crypto algorithm but a keystore format, and a proprietary
Sun one until the release of OpenJDK.
I guess in theory support could now be developed using the Sun source
code as a reference, but there's not much work on Classpath in general
at present.

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34731
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Andrew :-)

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