Re: Classpath 0.98 & jks

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 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

Andrew thanks a million for the Education. That totally answers my
question perfectly. Don't get me a quick easy and dirty solution but at
least now I know where I stand.

cheers