Re: [Pki-devel] Newbie Getting Started with JSS

Hello Magnus, Replies inline. ----- Original Message ----- Cool, good luck! As an aside, we've started hosting Javadocs on GitHub pages for a little better searching/usage. Though, they aren't yet automatically rebuilt. https://dogtagpki.github.io/jss/ Ah, the first problem... :-) That test isn't actually being run, and thus is likely broken. Here's a list of all tests we're currently running: https://github.com/dogtagpki/jss/blob/master/cmake/JSSTests.cmake (ctrl+f "jss_test_java") ~snip~ ~snip~ So the problem is that this is always going to fail. The Java interfaces which utilize provider always takes one of the two forms: Class.getInstance(type_of_class); Class.getInstance(type_of_class, provider_of_class); (type_of_class is always a String, latter can either be a String name or an instance of the Provider class). E.g., if you're doing say, an HMAC and don't care which provider: Mac.getInstance("HmacSHA1"); Otherwise, if you explicitly want it from JSS: Mac.getInstance("HmacSHA1", "Mozilla-JSS"); Outside of the provider calling and explicitly setting a default, there is no well, "global" default instance to get. And, to get the default instance, you have to call getDefaultType(), not getInstance(...). For some things this makes sense (e.g., KeyStore you usually care less about than a HMAC where you usually have a very specific algorithm in mind). See: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/security/KeyStore.html So, same thing applies here with the KeyStore. JSS's provider defines one type of KeyStore instance, PKCS11: https://github.com/dogtagpki/jss/blob/master/org/mozilla/jss/JSSProvider.... To get it, you'd call it like so: KeyStore ks = KeyStore.getInstance("PKCS11", "Mozilla-JSS"); Hope that helps, Alex