OpenJDK and the cacerts

[dalibor topic]

Quoting from README-builds.html in the top level directory:

"--with-cacerts=path

select the path to the cacerts file.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_Authority for a better 
understanding of the Certificate Authority (CA). A certificates file 
named "cacerts" represents a system-wide keystore with CA certificates. 
In JDK and JRE binary bundles, the "cacerts" file contains root CA 
certificates from several public CAs (e.g., VeriSign, Thawte, and 
Baltimore). The source contain a cacerts file without CA root 
certificates. Formal JDK builders will need to secure permission from 
each public CA and include the certificates into their own custom 
cacerts file. Failure to provide a populated cacerts file will result in 
verification errors of a certificate chain during runtime. By default an 
empty cacerts file is provided and that should be fine for most JDK 
developers."

cheers,
dalibor topic

On 07.08.2014 08:22, Richard Kolb wrote:
> Hello Adopt Discuss.
>
> I have taken to building my own OpenJDK for teaching Java. It really works
> well.
> I hit a problem with ssl connections and realized the OpenJDK 8 build I
> produced has an empty jre/lib/security/cacerts file.
>
> I have seen posts about this in the past but no real resolution.
>
> Where is the correct location to get or build a cacerts file for the
> OpenJDK?
> Not sure if it is in the vagrant script.
>
> Thanks,
> Richard.
>

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