Client SSL Authentication

Can you please confirm if your JSSE implementation supports client authentication using IE certificates? We would like to explore this possiblity as our java application is required to access personal keystore in IE.

Many thanks,
Alok

Hi Alok,

You can use it for client authentication without problems if the private key associated with your IE certificate is exportable from the key store. It will not work when the private key is stored on a smartcard since such a key will not be exportable.

There are ways around this problem as well (for non-exportable private keys), but then you have to use Java 5 or higher and also provide a PKCS#11 driver for your smartcard.

There are several posts about this on this forum. A good start would be the following post:
http://pheox.com/posts/list/18.page

Let us know if you have further questions.

Regards,
Tommy