signing a JAR file

Rob Crittenden rcritten at redhat.com
Wed Feb 14 20:28:11 UTC 2007


Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 February 2007, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> I'm looking into adding Java Security Services (JSS). This is a Java JNI
>> interface to Network Security Services (NSS) for crypto.
>>
>> According to
>> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/jss/provider_notes.html it
>> won't work unless the jar file is signed (using jarsigner).
> 
> It won't work with Sun's (nor with BEA's, IBM's etc I think) Java unless 
> signed, but I guess GCJ doesn't care.  But that's just guesswork, haven't 
> verified it.
> 

Can I package up the mozilla.org jar pre-signed jar file? I think that 
would qualify it as a "binary distribution" though which is frowned upon.

rob

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