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Java cryptography and free distributions

Posted Mar 15, 2007 16:50 UTC (Thu) by nosnilmot (subscriber, #746)
In reply to: Java cryptography and free distributions by gouyou
Parent article: Java cryptography and free distributions

JCE signing certificates are not issued by CAs in, or verified against, the conventional trusted certificate store, and end users do not have any way to extend the list of trusted authorities for JCE provider certificate verification.

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Posted Mar 15, 2007 17:30 UTC (Thu) by gouyou (guest, #30290) [Link]

My bad after doing a bit of research on JCE, I found a nice article explaining the situation, and it looks like a clear case of software DRM: Who Trusts the Trustees?.