[Ejbca-develop] New PKIT release available

[Justin W. <ju...@br...>]

Hi, All

I mentioned this package on ejbca-develop some time ago.   Take a look at the 
release notes below to find out what it's about.    My intention is 
eventually produce a tool kit that does a lot of general PKI tasks using the 
EJBCA code base as a starting point and hopefully grow the functionality of 
EJBCA by having the code available in more generic, functional and reusable  
form.

You can get a tarball from:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ejbca/pkit-full.tgz?download (with Bouncy 
Castle)

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ejbca/pkit-noprov.tgz?download (without 
Bouncy Castle)

pkit  (PKI Tools)  Release notes

pkit is essentially a hack of code from EJBCA ( http://ejbca.sourceforge.net ) 
and relies heavily
on the good work of Tomas Gustavsson and others from from EJBCA.   I have 
simply de-EJB'ed their code 
and produced some classes that I hope, with the help of others ( you :-) ) to 
grow in to a useful, friendly and well written
API to abstract the complexity of X509 and related PKI requirements and 
specifications.   I also hope to de-mystify 
PKI and make it less of a 'dark art' and so I aim to add a lot of 
documentation and references.   

Currently you will be able to use PKIT to sign a to produce a well formed cert 
for usages:
        non repudiation
        key encipherment
        data encipherment
        cert signing
        etc ..
using
	keys/certs
	or a PKCS10 request

Changes from release 0.01 (initially anounced on this list and on the BC list)

- Removed the hard coded password
- Added property based configuration
- Added some more sensible constructors
- Improved the build file (added release target and a couple of other things)