[kmf-discuss] signing/verifying certificates with pktool(1)

Wyllys Ingersoll wyllys.ingersoll at sun.com
Mon Jan 7 07:19:21 PST 2008


Jan Pechanec wrote:
> 	hi, it seems that pktool(1) doesn't export signing/verifying 
> capabilities of certificates that is present in underlying API. With signing 
> I mean to provide CSR and a cert/key reference (presumably one of CA) to use 
> for signing with CA's private key. Is there any plan to add such support?
>
> 	thanks, Jan.
>
>   

It was intentionally left out.   Signing a CSR is really the job of a CA
and we are not prepared to go down that path.   One can easily write a
small utility using KMF functions that will sign a CSR using a particular
private key and generate a certificate, though.

-Wyllys



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