keytool. was: jarsigner tool

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On Mar 28, 2006, at 11:56 AM, Raif S. Naffah wrote:

> hello Mark,
>
> On Wednesday 29 March 2006 03:45, Mark Wielaard wrote:
>> ...
>>> I will send an email to FSF legal about using a (reimplementation)
>>> of the JKS format.
>>
>> Done and answered. We are free to reimplement this. File formats and
>> algorithms aren't copyrightable, so any code we write to conform to
>> the description given (see below) is OK. Now all we need is someone
>> willing to actually implement this and add it as a standard KeyStore
>> format we support.
>
> this is great news!
>
> until a volunteer raises his/her hand and contribute the  
> implementation,
> i'll start working on the keytool tool.
>

Note that there is a beginning of a keytool implementation in GNU  
Crypto CVS. Some of the basic functions work (list, export, and  
import, I think), so it may be helpful to start with that code  
instead of from scratch.


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