RFR 8058778: New APIs for creating certificates and certificate requests

[Wang Weijun]

> On Jan 13, 2016, at 10:31 AM, larry mccay <larry.mccay at gmail.com> wrote:
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> That's a nice idea.
> Wouldn't the following be more clear though:
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> buildSelfSignedCertificate(KeyPair)?

Good.

So this should be Certificate.Builder the base interface. I am not familiar with non-X.509 certs, but hopefully there is also the concept of self-signed cert else where.

--Max

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> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 8:09 PM, Wang Weijun <weijun.wang at oracle.com> wrote:
> Another thing.
> 
> Many people only generates self-signed certificates. Shall we make this simple? For example, using buildCertificate(null, KeyPair, null)?
> 
> Thanks
> Max
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