Configuring J2Se 5.0 Pkcs#11 Providers - Sun Microsystems GlassFish Enterprise Server 2.1 Administration Manual

Using Hardware Crypto Accelerator With Enterprise Server
Working With Private Keys and Certificates
Use certutil to create self-signed certificates and to import or export certificates. To import or
export private keys, use the pk12util utility. For more details, see
Services (NSS) Tools" on page 116
Caution –
certutil and modutil. If you do so, security data in Enterprise Server might be corrupted.

Configuring J2SE 5.0 PKCS#11 Providers

Enterprise Server relies on J2SE PKCS#11 providers to access keys and certificates that are
located in PKCS#11 tokens at runtime. By default, Enterprise Server configures a J2SE PKCS#11
provider for the NSS soft token. This section describes how to override the default
configuration for the J2SE PKCS#11 provider.
In Enterprise Server, the following default PKCS#11 configuration parameters are generated for
each PKCS#11 token.
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These configurations conform to the syntax described in the Java PKCS#11 Reference Guide.
Note –
older versions of J2SE 5.0 support alphanumeric characters only.
You can override the default configuration parameters by creating a custom configuration file.
For example, you can explicitly disable the RSA Cipher and RSA Key Pair Generator in
SCA–1000. For details on disabling the RSA Cipher and RSA Key Pair Generator, see
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/tools.
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In Enterprise Server, do not modify the NSS password directly with the NSS tools
Configuration for the default NSS soft token:
name=internal
library=${com.sun.enterprise.nss.softokenLib}
nssArgs="configdir='${com.sun.appserv.nss.db}'
certPrefix='' keyPrefix='' secmod='secmod.db'"
slot=2
omitInitialize = true
Configuration for the SCA 1000 hardware accelerator:
name=HW1000
library=/opt/SUNWconn/crypto/lib/libpkcs11.so
slotListIndex=0
omitInitialize=true
The name parameter has no requirements other than that it must be unique. Certain
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