Hi Max,
For #3 below, have you considered whether it would be better to enhance keytool
-import to recognize (without prompting) chains that don't include the trust
anchor, but contain a certificate issued directly by one of the trust anchors in
the cacerts file? That seems to be a more flexible solution to me since it
accomodates chains with or without a root certificate.
--Sean
On 1/20/11 11:25 PM, Weijun Wang wrote:
Hi Sean
Some time ago we enhanced "keytool -gencert" to generate a cert chain, including
certicates from the end-entity to the secondary level CA, except the root CA. I
have some different opinion now, and think maybe it's better to include the root
CA.
1. There is no spec saying a chain cannot include the root CA. In fact, in
MSIE's certificate exporting dialog, when p7b format is selected and a chain is
exported, it includes the root CA cert.
2. No matter if the root CA cert is there or not, when we call "keytool
-importcert" on the chain, if the root CA is already trusted, the reply can be
imported silently, and inside the PrivateKeyEntry, the root CA cert will be
added anyway.
3. *Here comes the important reason*: If the root CA is not already trusted,
"keytool -importcert" command will show a warning asking the user to accept the
last cert in the chain. I'm quite sure the user would like to see the root CA
info here, but not the secondary CA.
The code change will be a simple
diff --git a/src/share/classes/sun/security/tools/KeyTool.java
b/src/share/classes/sun/security/tools/KeyTool.java
--- a/src/share/classes/sun/security/tools/KeyTool.java
+++ b/src/share/classes/sun/security/tools/KeyTool.java
@@ -1249,9 +1249,7 @@
for (Certificate ca: keyStore.getCertificateChain(alias)) {
if (ca instanceof X509Certificate) {
X509Certificate xca = (X509Certificate)ca;
- if (!isSelfSigned(xca)) {
dumpCert(xca, out);
- }
}
}
}
Thanks
Max
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: hg: jdk7/tl/jdk: 6937978: let keytool -gencert generate the chain
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 02:06:34 +0000
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected]
Changeset: db4fd2fdf196
Author: weijun
Date: 2010-04-16 10:06 +0800
URL: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/tl/jdk/rev/db4fd2fdf196
6937978: let keytool -gencert generate the chain
Reviewed-by: mullan
! src/share/classes/sun/security/tools/KeyTool.java
! test/sun/security/tools/keytool/selfissued.sh
