Trusting Your E-mail with Java Security

By Theodore J. Shrader
2003-12-04

Conclusion

The growing opportunity in e-business brings with it a growth in threats over the Internet. The possibility that the message you receive may not be from the person advertised on the message is very real. Senders, including you, need to guarantee to recipients that their messages can be authenticated and integrity verified. The technologies of public keys along with signature algorithms provide this degree of trust as part of the Java platform through the JCA. Additional standards, such as PKCS and S/MIME, help developers work with these security objects and resources at a higher level to deliver successful and secure e-business solutions.

Tutorial Pages:
» Java technologies give you a complete and secure solution
» Security requirements
» Failing scenarios
» Building closed systems
» Using a secret key
» Opening the message
» Public and private keys
» Signing a message
» Signing messages with Java technologies
» Using PKCS and S/MIME
» Encrypting messages
» Conclusion

First published by IBM DeveloperWorks

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