September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
12h 22m
English
Java SSL library has a flexible mechanism to access externally stored certificates for the purpose of authentication and verification. This mechanism consists of a Key Manager, an instance of a class implementing interface javax.net.ssl.KeyManager, to get the certificate for authentication, and Trust Manager, an instance of a class implementing interface javax.net.ssl.TrustManager, to get all the certificates for verifying a certificate. Note that the certificate to be used for authentication needs to be accompanied by the corresponding private key whereas certificates for verification have no such requirement.
The SSL library is initialized with default implementations of KeyManager and TrustManager. As we saw ...
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