Bencoe, Michael K wrote:

> Our development team just completed a successful experiment using SSL
> and mutual certificate authentication between a Java socket server and a
> C++ socket client.  The C++ client used OpenSSL, while the Java server
> used the SSL services provided with the 1.4 SDK.  For the experiment, we
> created the certificate files/stores and key files/stores with OpenSSL
> and Java utilities.
> 
I'm not a Java guy but be aware that the 1.4JDK only supports keys up to
1024 bits. If you need bigger key lengths (e.g., 2048, 4096) you'll need
to go to 1.5+

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Cheers!

J. Wren Hunt
Cambridge, MA. USA

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